Barry Norman
Barry Norman (1933 – 2017) was a house-hold name in the UK, where he was a beloved, hugely popular movie critic, TV host, radio broadcaster, and journalist. He was a regular columnist for The Observer and The Guardian, and the author of many acclaimed novels and non-fiction books.
Norman hosted the long-running BBC TV series Film… from 1972-1988, as well as numerous other non-fiction series, including Omnibus (1982), and the documentary series Hollywood Greats (1977-1983) Barry Norman’s Guide to American Soaps (1985), Talking Pictures (1987), and Soaps Down Under (1991). He also hosted many BBC radio shows, including Today, The News Quiz, Going Places, Breakaway, and The Chop Shop, among others.
He wrote a dozen books, including the novels The Hounds of Sparta, End Product, To Nick a Good Body, The Birddog Tape and Death of Sunset and the non-fiction books The Movie Greats, Talking Pictures, The Story of Hollywood, and Barry Norman’s Good Night In Guide, The 100 Best Films of the Century.
Books by Barry Norman
The Complete Lennox: Three Full Novels
All three critically-acclaimed crime novels in the "Bobby Lennox" series by legendary BBC presenter, reviewer and journalist Barry Norman in one ebook edition.
Death on Sunset
The razor-sharp third and final novel in beloved BBC film critic Barry Norman's hard-boiled "Bobby Lennox" series, a story the Birmingham Post says "positively glitters. Gorgeously entertaining."
London boxer-turner-fixer Bobby Lennox is sent to Hollywood as an "associate producer" by a crime boss to oversee his investment in a troubled, big-budget movie.
The Butterfly Tattoo
The second wild and witty "Bobby Lennox" adventure by legendary UK TV host and critic Barry Norman.
Bobby Lennox is an ex-boxer, reluctant "fixer," and a struggling London entrepreneur who does favors for Donovan, a crime boss angling for respectability. One way Donovan hopes to get it is by helping Archie Beckway, a womanizing, corrupt politician who is being blackmailed by three people dressed as Disney characters... one of whom has a butterfly tattoo on her shapely leg. But the assignment isn't as clear-cut as it seems, and twists right back to Donovan's doorstep.
Featured Book
To Nick a Good Body By Barry Norman
An authentic and outrageously funny police procedural in the tradition of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels... from legendary BBC host and critic Barry Norman.
Detective Inspector Nicholas Redford works in the "I" Division, a notoriously understaffed and and overworked part of the Metropolitan Police that handles all types of crime in their 100 miles square mile patch of London, but are lucky, given their lack of resources, if they can solve less than half of their cases.
