Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Russell has also written television projects, including the one-off drama, Our Day Out, which aired in 1977. He penned another television drama, One Summer, which aired as a five-part series on Channel 4 in 1983, starring a young David Morrissey.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Willyl Russell; David Cassidy; Shaun Cassidy; Rod Edwards; Willy Russell; Petula Clark and Del Newman This is both a memoir of the author's work in peacemaking, and a history of the unrest between Israel and Palestine. The Blood Brothers is a trilogy of romance-suspense by Rebecca Zanetti. It’s the story about three brothers who run an investigative agency, their colorful pasts, and the actions they are involved in their lines of duty. The series also highlights the characters’ love-lives and the effects that several strong and smart women have on their lives. A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.Willy Russell [Starring Stephanie Lawrence, Carl Wayne, Stefan Dennis, Glen McCready, Joanne Zorian, Abigail Meller in:] Directed by Bob Tomson Everybody loves a good story, and this one tells about the life and work of a Palestinian Christian, Elias Chacour, whose life was directly impacted by the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The village he grew up in was destroyed in the process of Israel becoming a nation, and in the book he does not shy away from disclosing the many ways the Conflict affected him, and made life difficult for him and his people. He trained to be a Melkite priest and grew to become a wise and highly-respected person in the peacemaking process in his homeland. Having some knowledge beforehand about the Conflict would be an advantage to the reader in understanding persons, places, and events referred to in the book, but at the same time is not essential. Elias Chacour grew up in Biram, a relatively small town in Galilee. He was welcomed into the world with a loving family who believed in Jesus Christ. He enjoyed going on spiritual walks with Jesus, his savior and role model. However the best things in life don’t often last forever. In young Elias’ case, it was World War II. Following the aftermath of Hitler, Palestine grudgingly welcomed Zionist Jews and their military. They confiscated the houses, farms, and churches from the people. God called on Elias to bring peace between Arabs and Jews. He was able to find education in a bishop’s school, and further understand the Arab-Israeli conflict. Elias struggled to love the Jews, and he struggles to clarify the misunderstanding of his people. The men of Galilee are able to help him with a saying. “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Certainly seems more engaging for a teenage audience than An Inspector Calls - albeit I enjoy teaching that text. I think it is somewhat more vital and relevant than Delaney’s ‘A Taste if Honey’ although I really enjoyed the national theatre revival of that play I saw in September last year. As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps.

In 2000, Russell published his first novel, The Wrong Boy. In epistolary form, main character Raymond Marks, a 19-year old from Manchester, tells the story of his life in letters to his hero Morrissey. Praying for the peace of Jerusalem has taken on new meaning for me. I am reminded of how the Bible has been used to justify many atrocities such as the Crusades and slavery. I am thinking how much of we have failed to listen fully to the whole truth and teaching of God's word and Jesus' message to us. There is the recent trouble in Furgeson Missouri and all the hatred and violence it has stirred up. Love and peace, truth and righteousness, learning to practice what is taught in the Sermon on the Mount, seem to be the same answers for many situations and unrest in the world today. Read this again for book club and loved it even more than the first time. His messages of peace and love for his fellow men are needed so desperately today. Some of his methods for creating a sense of ownership and hope is to build schools and community centers - much like Greg Mortensen. I saw a lot of similaries in their approach to long-standing problems. It was frustrating to read what happened to his family and many other Palestinians and realize that their story is rarely told in the news. It is so one-sided in favor of the Jews. He proves that there are always 2 sides to a story and his people have suffered tremendously. Well worth the 2nd read. This is one man's story about living and working in that tiny state along the Mediterranean. It's also a story not too often heard in Christian/Evangelical circles. For me it added realism and a much needed balance in sympathy for both Israel and the Palestinians. It also made me realise the strange and questionable role the West played in founding the state of Israel and looking the other way when oppression got nasty.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers. A 32pp programme from the Liverpool Playhouse. 1993. BLOOD BROTHERS. A MUSICAL . BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY WILLY RUSSELL. WITH STEPHENIE LAWRENCE AS MRS JOHNSTONE. Article about Willy Russell and about the writing of the musical by him. Originally performed at The Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983. A very good copy. Condition: New. All our books are brand NEW. We ship worldwide. Solo vendemos libros nuevos con envios a todo el mundo. Willy Russell was born in Whiston, on the outskirts of Liverpool, where he grew up. His parents worked in a book publisher's and often encouraged him to read. After leaving school with one O-level in English, he first became a ladies' hairdresser and ran his own salon. Russell then undertook a variety of jobs, also the first play he wrote was Keep Your Eyes Down Low (1975). His first success was a play about The Beatles called John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert. Originally commissioned for the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool was transferring to the West End in 1974. Educating Rita (1980) concerned a female hairdresser and her Open University teacher. The semi-autobiographical Educating Rita was turned into a 1983 film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters. The musical Blood Brothers (1983), for which Russell also composed the music, first opened in Liverpool and transferred to London's Phoenix Theatre. It won the best actress award at the Lawrence Olivier awards. Bill Kenwright produced a revival in 1988 which has run for more than twenty years; the show was produced on Broadway in 1993. Shirley Valentine, which first opened in Liverpool in 1986 before a new production opened in London in 1988 starring Pauline Collins. It was also made into a successful film, in 1989, again with Collins in the title role. Russell received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for both Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine. This book is a memoir, the personal account of the author's experiences living, first in the British Mandate of Palestine and then, after the Israeli war of independence, in Israel. But the author isn't Jewish, but rather a Palestinian Christian whose family had peacefully farmed their land in Galilee for generations. But the creation of the state of Israel changed all of that. Their lands were seized and the family became refugees in their own homeland.