Jack Davenport
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Ten Percent volume 4
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Jonathan stuns the agency with the news that he has accepted a takeover offer from United World Talent. Soon the new parent company is flexing its authority, and Jonathan must face that in saving the company, he has lost his leadership position. Rebecca and Dan are called to a movie set to help their clients (Emma Corrin and Himesh Patel) who are struggling to make it through a love scene together, while Zoë and Dan are inspired to take their relationship...
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Ten Percent volume 2
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The team at Nightingale Hart is still reeling from the loss of its leader and owner, Richard. But in the cutthroat world of talent agents, a power struggle is not far off. Jonathan and Rebecca are forced into damage control when two of their clients (Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams) are offered the same role. Misha gets involved with a handsome writer, only to discover he has an awkward family connection to the agency. Meanwhile, Dan is coping...
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Ten Percent volume 5
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Jonathan arrives at work only to find the new American boss has taken his office. The team is commanded to sign a specific young talent...or else. But the starlet (Phoebe Dynevor) lets Jonathan know that she bears a grudge against him. Drunk on her birthday, Misha makes a blunder involving a client. Jonathan sticks up for her and invites her out for a belated birthday drink. When Luke and Charlotte find them alone together, Jonathan is forced to admit...
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Ten Percent volume 1
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English
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Nightingale Hart, one of London's most renowned and respected talent agencies - boasting top clients like Kelly Macdonald, Helena Bonham Carter, and Dominic West - has more than its share of drama and crises. And on the night that much-loved agency founder Richard Nightingale (Jim Broadbent) is to be recognized for his lifetime achievement, the agents receive shocking news.
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Ten Percent volume 7
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English
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Rebecca gets a call that one of her biggest clients is being considered for a dream role. However, the client (Clémence Poésy) just recently had a baby, and the role calls for a massive time commitment. At the audition, Rebecca pretends the baby is hers. And Rebecca and Margaux's relationship is at a turning point. After Jonathan is kicked out of the house by his wife, he finds himself in a compromising position with his assistant.
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Ten Percent volume 3
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English
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Stella visits the West End rehearsals of one of her biggest movie-star clients (Dominic West), surprised to find him suffering from a bad case of stage fright. Meanwhile, Rebecca is courting an author for movie rights, and the business deal soon gets very personal. And Jonathan discovers the financial mess that his father left behind. The only option may be to sell the firm to an American super-agency. Finally, Misha awkwardly rebuffs Luke's advances,...
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Ten Percent volume 8
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English
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With the United World Talent boss in the office monitoring him, Dan is focused on one of his clients (David Harewood) who is up to play James Bond. Dan struggles to get the actor into the right headspace, but later, he decides to commit to Zoë. Stella reveals that her medical results came back, and thankfully, she'll be all right. Rebecca says goodbye to Margaux and promises to wait for her. Jonathan is confronted by Charlotte, but he is not truthful....
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Ten Percent volume 6
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English
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Two of Jonathan's clients, a well-known married couple (David and Jessica Oyelowo) working on a film together, are at odds due to inequality in pay. To make matters worse, Charlotte discovers that Jonathan was having an affair while she was pregnant with Luke, causing her to kick Jonathan out of the house. Elsewhere, jealousy comes in between Dan and Zoë, and, at the same time, Rebecca is jealous of Margaux.
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Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house he doesn't recognize, unable to remember anything of his life. A note instructs him to call a Dr. Randle, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of memory loss, and that for the last two years-since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while vacationing in Greece-he's been suffering from an acute dissociative disorder. But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether....
12) Henceforward
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Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn's most unusual works. In the not-so-distant future a composer is building a female robot to act as his fiance, so that he can convince his ex-wife that their daughter should come live with him. Thus, he hopes to overcome his writers block and redress the pain of his past.
13) Candide
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The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".
Candide is characterised by its...
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 3
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English
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In Timor, Mary and the other men enjoy the luxury of freedom under false identities. However, fate conspires against them as Clarke stops there on his way back to England.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 2
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Mary, her husband Will, their two children, and five other men set sail for Timor, closely followed by Clarke who obsessively pursues them. Through sheer grit and enormous luck, most of them make it 4,000 miles to the Dutch colony of Timor.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 1
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English
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Cornwall, 1786, hungry Mary Broad is convicted to death for stealing a lady's picnic but 'mercifully' allowed to join for life first governor Phillip's founding shipload to start a penal colony at Botany bay in New South Wales.
17) The Key Man
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In a desperate attempt to support his family, Bobby Scheinman strikes a deal with two gangsters and quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous con.
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Life in Squares volume 2
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English
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As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.
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Life in Squares volume 1
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English
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Painter Vanessa Stephen and her writer sister Virginia embark on a life of unexpected, post-Victorian freedom in bohemian Bloomsbury. But when they are introduced to flamboyant male admirers, their idyll is rocked and the sisters' relationship is threatened.
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Life in Squares volume 3
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English
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Vanessa and Duncan's daughter Angelica is grown up but still unaware of her true parentage. As tragedy hits the family, Vanessa is finally galvanised into revealing the secret she's withheld for so long. Angelica's horror at the betrayal is painfully damning of her upbringing and threatens to drive a lasting wedge between mother and daughter.
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