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Christopher Fairbank is an English film, stage and television actor, best known in the UK for playing Moxey in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Career In 2010, he appeared as a detective in Five Daughters, and as Alfred "Freddie" Lennon in the biopic Lennon Naked. In December 2023, it was announced that Fairbank had been cast as Eddie Knight in EastEnders. Theatre Filmography Film Television Video Game References External links Christopher Fairbank at IMDb. Discover the Christopher Best popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Christopher Best books.

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  • Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 synopsis, comments

    Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11

    Maxim Jakubowski

    This superb annual anthology of the year’s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in une...

  • Titans of War synopsis, comments

    Titans of War

    Wilbur Smith

    Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brandnew Ancient Egyptian series.A RUTHLESS ENE...

  • Lie With Me synopsis, comments

    Lie With Me

    Philippe Besson

    “I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that li...

  • Mistress of Life and Death synopsis, comments

    Mistress of Life and Death

    Susan J. Eischeid

    A gripping, unflinching biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, one of the most notorious and contradictory figures at the heart of the Nazi regime, and her transformation from harml...

  • Born to Run synopsis, comments

    Born to Run

    Christopher McDougall

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my f...

  • The Berlin Project synopsis, comments

    The Berlin Project

    Gregory Benford

    New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to...

  • The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories synopsis, comments

    The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories

    Stephen Jones

    Winner of the British Fantasy AwardSixteen rare terror tales not to be read at night! To sleep, perchance to dream . . . of horrors! Here are some of the stories that gave their ow...

  • Hot Under His Collar synopsis, comments

    Hot Under His Collar

    Andie J. Christopher

    He’s forbidden fruit and she’s a rule follower, but their connection is something to believe in.  Father Patrick Dooley joined the clergy to fulfill his mother's dying wish. W...

  • The Ferryman Institute synopsis, comments

    The Ferryman Institute

    Colin Gigl

    In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman for the dead finds his existence un...

  • Following Christopher Creed synopsis, comments

    Following Christopher Creed

    Carol Plum-Ucci

    Years later . . . what really happened to Christopher Creed? When Torey Adams posts on his blog that a body has been found in Steepletonfour years after Christopher Creed disappear...

  • The World of Christopher Marlowe synopsis, comments

    The World of Christopher Marlowe

    David Riggs

    The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he livedShakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized English drama ...

  • Jenkins at the Majors synopsis, comments

    Jenkins at the Majors

    Dan Jenkins

    Legendary sports writer Dan Jenkins delivers a golf history lesson that is unrivaled in its scope and style.  In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest...

  • The Agitators synopsis, comments

    The Agitators

    Dorothy Wickenden

    An LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! “Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of t...

  • Isabella synopsis, comments

    Isabella

    Kirstin Downey

    An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Sp...

  • Grave Reservations synopsis, comments

    Grave Reservations

    Cherie Priest

    “Delightful.” The New York Times Book ReviewA psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective solve a murder in this quirky mystery in the vein of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files an...

  • A Beautiful Mind synopsis, comments

    A Beautiful Mind

    Sylvia Nasar

    Also an Academy Award–winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connellydirected by Ron HowardThe powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious...

  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat synopsis, comments

    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Samin Nosrat

    More than 1 million copies sold New York Times bestseller Winner of the James Beard Award and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards Available as a Netflix series Transform how you prep,...

  • The Bomb synopsis, comments

    The Bomb

    Fred Kaplan

    From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear warand Presidents’ actions in nuclea...

  • Sleeper Agent synopsis, comments

    Sleeper Agent

    Ann Hagedorn

    This “historical pageturner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, littleknown story of an Americanborn Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during Worl...

  • The Body of Christopher Creed synopsis, comments

    The Body of Christopher Creed

    Carol Plum-Ucci

    Chris Creed grew up as the class freakthe bullies’ punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. And it tore the town apart. Sixteeny...

  • The Best Friend synopsis, comments

    The Best Friend

    R. L. Stine

    FEAR STREET WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE... Honey Perkins just moved to Shadyside. But she's telling everyone that she is Becka Norwood's best friend from elementary school. T...

  • Inside Story synopsis, comments

    Inside Story

    Martin Amis

    An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to diefrom “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the...

  • Game of Crowns synopsis, comments

    Game of Crowns

    Christopher Andersen

    A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II...

  • The Perfect Father synopsis, comments

    The Perfect Father

    John Glatt

    In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social mediabut the truth w...

  • Chaos Kings synopsis, comments

    Chaos Kings

    Scott Patterson

    Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating and “closely observed chronicle of the stormchasing edgelords of finance and the critics with whom they cla...

  • Outliers synopsis, comments

    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apartfrom Bill...

  • The Wild Truth synopsis, comments

    The Wild Truth

    Carine McCandless

    A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a co...

  • The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror synopsis, comments

    The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror

    Stephen Jones & Michael Marshall Smith

    Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Co...

  • Rules of Deception synopsis, comments

    Rules of Deception

    Christopher Reich

    New York Times BestsellerDr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his wife, Emma, when she falls into a hidden crevasse and ...

  • The Nolan Variations synopsis, comments

    The Nolan Variations

    Tom Shone

    An indepth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory port...

  • The General and the Genius synopsis, comments

    The General and the Genius

    James Kunetka

    With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's mos...

  • Growing Up Getty synopsis, comments

    Growing Up Getty

    James Reginato

    An enthralling and comprehensive look into the contemporary state of one of the wealthiestand most misunderstoodfamily dynasties in the world, perfect for fans of Succession and Ho...

  • New Kingdom synopsis, comments

    New Kingdom

    Wilbur Smith

    An Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur SmithAn Ancient Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction and global number 1 bestselling author, Wilb...

  • Noir synopsis, comments

    Noir

    Christopher Moore

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madc...

  • Somewhere In Time synopsis, comments

    Somewhere In Time

    Richard Matheson

    Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the upcoming movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by o...

  • Nemesis synopsis, comments

    Nemesis

    Wilbur Smith

    A brandnew historical epic from the Master of Adventure, in which three strands of the Courtney family converge in a bloodthirsty bid for revenge.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fe...

  • Murtagh synopsis, comments

    Murtagh

    Christopher Paolini

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set...

  • I Must Say synopsis, comments

    I Must Say

    Martin Short

    “Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.”  Washington PostIn this ...

  • Revenge synopsis, comments

    Revenge

    Tom Bower

    This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tellall” (Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted acti...

  • The Peoples of Middle-earth synopsis, comments

    The Peoples of Middle-earth

    J. R. R. Tolkien

    Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his ...