The Film Ink series presents the novels that inspired the work of some of the most celebrated directors of our time. While each novel is first and foremost a classic in its own right, these books offer the dedicated cinephile a richer understanding of the most illustrious films of American and Eu...
All he had to do was drink too much and let it be known that he worked at Collingwood’s. He had no fear of the girl’s recognising him. In fact he was so confident of his changed appearance that he was seriously thinking of deserting the police service secure in the knowledge that nobody would be ...
Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was published in 1961 and a decade later was made into an internationally acclaimed film. Cook wrote more than twenty books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-make...
For some reason I realised that the civilians hadn't spoken since we started out, except to answer Jack's query about the guns. Now they stood at one side of the clearing, holding their weapons with the muzzles conscientiously towards the ground, quietly watching. The four of us gathered on the e...
It was his second novel, the first having been withdrawn because of a threat of legal action. It was a publishing success, appearing in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools. It might be forty years since the novel appeared yet it retains its fre...