Resistance

...penned a reworking of stories from the Mabinogion, more on which later. Oh, and he's also preparing for a film version of his debut novel, Resistance. It's Sheers' first venture into the movie world and he says working on a screenplay is a...

In this article: Owen Sheers, Oscar, London, New York, Robert Louis Stevenson, Branwen, and Llyr

...his one man play based on the life and poetry of the WWII poet Keith Douglas was developed by Old Vic, New Voices. Owen's first novel, Resistance (UK Faber, 2007/ US Nan Talese/Doubleday 2008) will be translated into ten languages, was short...

In this article: Owen Sheers, Wordsworth Trust, The Dust Diaries, Ondaatje Prize, BBC 4, and Wales Book of the Year

The Visa Book Club were pleasantly surprised at how Owen Sheers' Resistance rocked their prejudices Welcome to the Irish Independent Book Club. Every month we bring you a compelling fiction choice, from crime and mystery novels to classics...

In this article: Owen Sheers, Dublin, and Ondaatje Prize

...said one indie producer. Holmes has attracted backing from Germany and Wales for his big-screen adaptation of Owen Sheers' World War II novel "Resistance." Holmes is taking up arms with Al Munteanu's Square One in Germany and Film Agency...

In this article: U.K., U.S., Tax, World War II, and Owen Sheers

CANNES -- Many hands make light work. The planned big-screen adaptation of Owen Sheers' World War II novel "Resistance," from Brit indie producer Richard Holmes, has attracted backing from Germany and Wales. Holmes ("Eden Lake") is...

In this article: Owen Sheers and World War II

The British company Big Rich Films has optioned Owen Sheers' alternate-universe World War II novel Resistance for the big screen, Variety reported. Amit Gupta will write and direct the movie, which is set in an alternate 1944 in which...

In this article: Owen Sheers, World War II, Britain, and Russia

...occupied by Germans. Churchill and members of his Cabinet follow King George to Canada. This is what we discover in the gripping pages of Resistance, a first novel by Welsh writer Owen Sheers. He bases this daring alternate history on the...

In this article: Owen Sheers, World War II, Frances Itani, and Oxford

...breath" of a "dying tyranny." The nations in question are real, but the scenario is fictional; Owen Sheers' haunting new novel, "Resistance," describes life in a half-forgotten corner of Nazi-occupied Britain. Technically, the book,...

In this article: Owen Sheers, God, World War II, Civil War, Robert Harris, Philip Roth, and Laura Miller

...and faint aroma of wood smoke. · Owen Sheers' latest collection of poetry is Skirrid Hill (Seren, GBP7.99). His first novel Resistance is published by Faber at GBP10.99. You can buy it from the Guardian Bookshop Travel services USA

In this article: Owen Sheers, Hugh T Munro, Loch Ericht, London, and Shortbread

...then intimate relationship with Sarah, one of the women left behind, and their romance forms the core of the novel. This aspect of "Resistance" is too satisfying, and too predictable; one might say it belongs in a separate novel entitled...

In this article: Owen Sheers, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, World War II, Wales, and Acquiescence