Quentin Falk: 4 books
Cinema's Strangest Moments
Extraordinary but true tales from the history of film
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How did Leonardo DiCaprio become a hero on The Beach? Why would the Droids lode control in Star Wars? What persuaded Mad Max to become Hamlet? Who made Long John Silver's parrot dread Treasure Island? When was there a curse on The Exorcist? Where did Harrison Ford's quick-thinking profit Raiders Of...
by Quentin Falk
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
On October 8, 1920 the body of a young woman named Kate Lilian Bailey, aged 22, was discovered. It transpired that her husband, George Arthur Bailey, had poisoned his seven-months pregnant wife with prussic acid, and with a whiff of the same chloroform he used to ease her final anguish, sedated his...
Television's Strangest Moments
Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of TV
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasive medium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected. Ranging from bizarre stories of actors shenanigans to strange but true executive and marketing...
Mr Midshipman VC
The Short Accident-Prone Life of George Drewry, Gallipoli Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry.
At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nation’s premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In...