John Irvin

Can Ihon Iraes survive the growing heaviness on his heart? He's already lost so many human loves, he wonders if his kind-the Wolf-Born-are right in their prejudice against the "lesser race." But, how can he not love humans? When returning home to Iraes Valley, Ihon discovers the descendants of his Desi have spent the past few decades remodeling the Iraes House. Time passes, Ihon moves southward into England, finding friends instead of enemies in...

The death of the old and familiar brings the new path of a life-altering revelation. When his wife is murdered, Ihon Iraes is, forced to find his destiny in the world of men. His revelation is a new form he takes on accident the night he finds her body. What is this, monstrous creature that he has become? Hunting down the killer, he discovers he is not alone. He's part of an ancient Race of creatures that walk like men with the heads and pelts of...

From the company that brought Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown, comes an adaptation that faithfully realizes Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling....

Hired by an international cartel, soldier of fortune Jamie Shannon (Walken) organizes a strike force to wrest control of an impoverished but mineral rich west African nation from a madman. An intricate game ensues where double cross is the rule: Shannon and his handpicked men find themselves caught between the cartel and the dictator they were to depose. To escape this dilemma, Shannon and his men apply their own code of honor.

Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.

For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.