The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Category: Novels by Michael Dobbs

Described as " the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world's annual gongs ", Michelle Pauli posed the question in relation to the longlist for the 2004 edition: " Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a € 100, 000 prize?

Halifax is also a significant character in Michael Dobbs ' novels Winston's War and Never Surrender.

* In 2009, Michael Dobbs wrote a short play, " Turning Point ," for a series of live broadcast TV plays on Sky Arts channel.

* Michael Abrash's article from Dr. Dobbs Journal

The Bridport Literary Festival has been running since 2005 and has played host to the biggest literary lions including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Claire Tomalin, Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, Julian Fellowes, Alexander Waugh, John Julius Norwich, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon, Bill Oddie, Robin Hanbury – Tenison, Katharine Whitehorn, Kate Summerscale, Michael Dobbs and Ann Leslie DBE.

Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs ( born 14 November 1948 ) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author.

Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs.

Michael Dobbs is most recognised as a best-selling author.

Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name.

* Official web site of Michael Dobbs

Once again, Manuel began benching him, using Greg Dobbs, Jayson Werth, or Michael Bourn in left field.

* Michael Dobbs, writer and politician

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

* The Turning Point by Michael Dobbs, a novel that explores a little-known 1938 meeting between Burgess and Winston Churchill.

The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists, including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who initially believed the story.

* Reprint: Josef Korbel's Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy, Michael Dobbs, Washington Post December 28, 2000

" Created September 2007 by Post diplomatic writer Michael Dobbs specifically for the 2008 presidential campaign.

* Never Surrender ( novel ), a 2004 novel by Michael Dobbs

" In One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Michael Dobbs notes the deep impression Guns had on Kennedy.

In 1996, the Washington Post wrote, “ The Kosovo cause has been kept alive in Washington by a small group of congressmen led by Rep. Eliot L. Engel ( D-N. Y .)....” ( Dobbs, Michael, “ Kosovo ’ s Albanians Look to U. S. for Help ; American Office Opened in Serb-Ruled Region ,” The Washington Post, July 21, 1996 ).

* 1926 – Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author

* 1958 – Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

The article was written by Michael Allaby, author of many ( although not peer-reviewed ) books on climate, who had previously expressed ideas similar to Lomborg.

Michael Korda, author of Male Chauvinism!

Corum Jhaelen Irsei (" the Prince in the Scarlet Robe ") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of two trilogies written by author Michael Moorcock.

Michael Collins, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, is generally considered the author who led the form into the Modern Age.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* Michael Harrington ( author, academic, activist )

" Michel De Villeneuve " had contracts with Jean Frellon for that work, and the Servetus scholar-researcher Francisco Javier González Echeverría presented research that became an accepted communication in the International Society for the History of Medicine which concluded that Michael De Villeneuve ( Michael Servetus ) is the author of the commentaries of this edition of Frellon, in Lyon.

* 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author ( d. 1997 )

* 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali author ( d. 1873 )

* 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee ( d. 1999 )

* 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author

* 1963 – Michael Ruhlman, American author

* 1956 – Michael Connelly, American author

* 1961 – Michael Durant, American pilot and author

Regarding the CIA's refusal to inform the FBI about Mihdhar and Hazmi, author Lawrence Wright suggests the CIA wanted to protect its turf and was concerned about giving sensitive intelligence to FBI Agent John P. O ' Neill, who Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer described as duplicitous.

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.

Michael John Muuss ( October 16, 1958-November 20, 2000 ) was the author of the freeware network tool ping.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

See Michael Buckland's conclusion: " Bush's contributions in this area were twofold: ( i ) A significant engineering achievement by the team under his leadership in building a truly rapid prototype microfilm selector, and ( ii ) a speculative article, ' As We May Think ,' which, through its skillful writing and the social prestige of its author, has had an immediate and lasting effect in stimulating others.