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Luke Jennings (born 1953 [1] ) is a British author, dance critic and journalist.
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Jennings trained as a dancer at the Rambert School and was one of the students of the Expressionist and Integrated dance pedagogue Hilde Holger. [2] Jennings studied Indian languages.
Jennings produced and directed a Channel 4 documentary filmed in Bombay. [3]
As a journalist, Jennings has written for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker , and he has reported from locations around the world, including Moscow. [1] He was a dance critic for The Observer [4] and has written dance-related articles for Time. [5] [6]
Jennings's first novel, Breach Candy (1993), follows a recently retired ballerina and an intelligent-but-wounded television director researching a Channel 4 documentary in Mumbai. [3]
Jennings's novel, Atlantic (1995), which takes place in a cruise ship in the post-war years, [7] was nominated for the Booker Prize. [8]
Beauty Story (1998) is a novel about a young actress who vanishes from a 16th-century English castle where she was filming a fragrance commercial. [9]
The acknowledgements section in At Risk (2004) by Stella Rimington indicates that it was written with the help of Luke Jennings: "Huge thanks are also due to Luke Jennings whose help with the research and the writing made it all happen." [10]
Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing—a 2010 memoir about fishing, and about "childhood innocence, paternal love, and his friendship with the charismatic, enigmatic" man who was later killed by the IRA while working as an intelligence officer in Ireland [11] —was shortlisted for the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize [12] and for the William Hill prize. [8]
With his daughter, Jennings co-wrote the Stars youth fiction series (circa 2013), about teenagers at a performing arts school. [13]
Jennings co-authored The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet (2014). [8]
Jennings's 2017 book Codename Villanelle , a compilation of four serial Kindle edition novellas published between 2014 and 2016, [14] [15] [16] [17] was the basis for BBC America's Killing Eve television series. [18] Though his 2018 sequel Killing Eve: No Tomorrow diverged from the television show, the books and show are said to "share common DNA" because of Jennings's continued collaboration with the show's creators. [19] A third volume of the Villanelle series, Killing Eve: Die For Me , was released on 19 March 2020. [20]
“Homecoming”, a short story by Jennings, is in Lifelines—An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes, and More… (NAROD Publishing, 2021), a collection of 27 short stories by 27 different authors concerning angling.
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Killing Eve is a British spy thriller television series produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC Three. The series follows Eve Polastri, a British intelligence investigator tasked with capturing psychopathic assassin Villanelle. As the chase progresses, the two develop a mutual obsession. Based on the Villanelle novel series by Luke Jennings, each of the show's series is led by a different female head writer. The first series had Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the head writer, the second series Emerald Fennell, the third series Suzanne Heathcote, and the fourth series Laura Neal.
"Nice Face" is the first episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 8 April 2018 in the United States and 15 September 2018 in the United Kingdom.
"I'll Deal with Him Later" is the second episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 15 April 2018 in the United States and 22 September 2018 in the United Kingdom.
"Don't I Know You?" is the third episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 22 April 2018 in the United States and 29 September 2018 in the United Kingdom.
"I Have a Thing About Bathrooms" is the fifth episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 6 May 2018 in the United States and 13 October 2018 in the United Kingdom.
Villanelle, birth name Oxana Vorontsova or Oksana Astankova is a fictional character in Luke Jennings' novel Codename Villanelle (2018), its sequels Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (2019) and Killing Eve: Die for Me (2020), and the BBC America television series adaptation Killing Eve (2018–2022) in which she is portrayed by English actress Jodie Comer. She is a psychopathic assassin who works for a crime syndicate called The Twelve, and the archenemy of British intelligence agent Eve Polastri. Their mutually obsessive relationship is the main focus of both the novels and the TV series. The character and Comer's performance have received critical acclaim, with Villanelle being considered the show's breakout character.
Eve Polastri is a fictional agent working for British intelligence, and the titular character of the novel and television series Killing Eve.
Codename Villanelle is a 2017 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings. A compilation of four serial e-book novellas published from 2014 to 2016, the novel was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray as an e-book on 29 June 2017, followed by hardcover and paperback versions on 24 August 2017. Codename Villanelle is the basis of the BBC America/BBC Three television series Killing Eve (2018–2022).
"Sorry Baby" is the fourth episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 29 April 2018 in the United States and 6 October 2018 in the United Kingdom.
Killing Eve: No Tomorrow is a 2018 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings and the second installment in the Killing Eve series, following Codename Villanelle (2017). It was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray on 25 October 2018. The novels are the basis of the BBC America television series Killing Eve (2018–2022).
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Killing Eve: Die for Me is a 2020 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings. It is the third and final installment in the Killing Eve series, following Codename Villanelle (2017) and Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (2018). The novel was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray as an e-book on 9 April 2020, followed by hardcover and paperback versions on 11 June and 12 November 2020, respectively. The novels are the basis of the BBC America television series Killing Eve (2018–2022).
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