RAY CONNOLLY has written several novels, including SUNDAY MORNING and SHADOWS ON A WALL, the movies THAT'LL BE THE DAY and STARDUST, the television series LYTTON'S DIARY and PERFECT SCOUNDRELS and a biography of JOHN LENNON. He also worked with record producer SIR GEORGE MARTIN on the television series THE RHYTHM OF LIFE, and has written TV plays, films and documentaries, radio plays, short stories and much journalism. His latest novel, KILL FOR LOVE, and THE Ray Connolly BEATLES ARCHIVE are both available as eBooks on Amazon. He is married and lives in London.
Dusty Springfield Film
Ray Connolly is currently writing the screenplay for a movie about the life of Dusty Springfield.
How Terribly Strange To Be Seventy (Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2012)
You don't realise that you're knocking on a bit until some delectable young woman on the Tube stands up and offers you her place. "What, me?" your...
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On a fishing trip in the remote hills of Slovakia a small boy discovers a limousine lying at the bottom of a river. Inside are the bodies of two Hollywood film stars, a young movie director and a famous rock musician. Meanwhile, across the border in Poland, production on a new movie about Napoleon is tens of millions of dollar over-budget and the producer is missing.
'Without doubt the best movie story I have ever read. A brilliant mixture of irony, comedy and pathos.' Publishing News.
'Shadows On A Wall…never falters. This bitter-sweet comedy about the making of a movie epic kept me engaged through every scene, laughing here, worrying there, fascinated always by the absurdity and the reality of it all. Epic and massively entertaining.' National Public Radio.
'Darkly funny.' Seattle Times
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'Most books about the Beatles are by writers who never met them. I was a journalist and knew all of them, using my little Sony cassette machine to record interview after interview with them. This book contains many of those interviews.
'As a journalist I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, John Lennon confiding in me that he'd left the band months before it became public knowledge, and Paul McCartney later asking me to interview him so that he could explain his side of the break up.
'Before that I'd been to Beatles' recording sessions, was a frequent Apple visitor, followed the Magical Mystery Tour around England and later was in the front row of George Harrison's concert for Bangla Desh in New York - while Ringo appeared in a movie I wrote called That'll Be The Day.'
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A picnic for a couple of besotted teenagers ends in a double tragedy in New Hampshire; in Tokyo a brilliant student murders her room mates as they sleep; while in England a loving mother poisons her husband and children. Against these seemingly random events, TV reporter Kate Merrimac finds herself increasingly intrigued by a charismatic rock singer, Jesse Gadden, and the ever-smiling young army of acolytes that surrounds him.
A story about the power of music, 24 hour news television and the influence of internet chat rooms and social networking sites, Kill for Love is a thriller for today.
