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Oliver James Biography & Facts
Oliver James (born Oliver James Hutson; 1980 or 1981) is an English actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. Acting career James trained at the Guildford School of Acting and made his acting debut in the made-for-television short film School's Out as Dean. He then appeared in an episode for the BBC television series The Afternoon Play. In 2002, James was cast as the role of Ian Wallace in the teen romantic comedy What a Girl Wants. The film was directed by Dennie Gordon and co-starred Amanda Bynes. The movie was released in 2003, to mixed critical reception, and a moderate box office with worldwide earnings of $50,732,139. In 2004, James was cast to portray the role of Jay Corgan in New Line Cinema's musical drama film Raise Your Voice. The film which was directed by Sean McNamara and co-starred Hilary Duff. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb earning worldwide $14,867,514. In 2006, James signed on for the BBC drama television series The Innocence Project portraying the role of Nick Benitz. The eight-episode first season received negative reviews from critics. Ratings were very poor and the BBC chose to pull the series midway through season one, with the show not being renewed for a second season. In 2009, James portrayed the role of Ben in Paramount Home Entertainment's Direct-to-DVD sequel Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling. The film received negative reviews. In 2011, James appeared in a leading role in the TV film Roadkill. In 2012, he appeared in the TV film Black Forest. Music career Shortly after appearing in The Afternoon Play, James joined a boy band produced by Simon Fuller. He quit the band as soon as he was cast in What A Girl Wants. For What A Girl Wants, he learned to play the guitar and sang the songs "Long Time Coming" and "Greatest Story Ever Told" which appear on the film's soundtrack. He played the acoustic guitar and sang the last song in Raise Your Voice. Filmography References External links Oliver James at IMDb. Discover the Oliver James popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Oliver James books.
Best Seller Oliver James Books of 2024
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The New Beginnings Bridal Boutique
Kellie Hailes'You know for an owner of a bridal shop you're awfully cynical about marriage.'As the owner of a secondhand bridal boutique in the little village of Alfriston, Paige Alby has seen ...
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Coal Black Mornings
Brett AndersonEvening Standard Book of the Year. Observer Book of the Year. Guardian Book of the Year. Sunday Times Book of the Year. Telegraph Book of the Year. New Statesman Book of the Year. ...
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New Science
Giambattista Vico & David MarshBarely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (16681744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and law...
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The Weekend Baker
Paul HollywoodDiscover delicious and simple bakes inspired by Paul Hollywood's journey around the world, from one of the nation's favourite bakers and Great British Bake Off judgeContaining a va...
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The Penguin History of Britain
Mark KishlanskyThe sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the rei...
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Time and How to Spend It
James WallmanA Financial Times Book of the Year'Genius ... I couldn't put it down, I read it from cover to cover'CHRIS EVANSIf the most precious thing we have is time, the most highly prized ex...
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood & Travis ThrasherIn this “mustread for anyone concerned with race, sports, and politics in America” (William C. Rhoden, New York Times bestselling author), the inspirational and largely unknown tru...
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Alexander von HumboldtOne of the greatest nineteenthcentury scientistexplorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he...
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The Domesday Quest
Michael WoodIn 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the No...
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The Borough Market Cookbook
Ed Smith'Like the market, the book is exciting, instructive, seductive and inspirational.' Claudia RodenAn essential gift for the keen cook in your life. Borough Market is the beating hear...
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David Copperfield
Charles DickensNow a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelis...
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The Marine
James BradyA rousing new Marine Corps adventure from the author of the New York Times bestselling Warning of War and The Marines of AutumnThe Marine is Colonel James ("Oliver") Cromwell, a wa...
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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Julia Bishop & Steve RoudOne of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladiesFarewell and adieu to you ladies of SpainFor we've received orders for to sail for old En...
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The Pacific
Meaghan Wilson AnastasiosA rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 25...
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The Book of St John
Fergus Henderson & Trevor Gulliver'The Book of St John is too witty to be a manifesto, but it is a sturdy invocation of the need for comfort, generosity and ritual at the table. And it is a gurglingly delightful co...
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Saturday Kitchen Cooking Bible
Various Authors200 mouthwatering recipes from Britain's food heroes.Each weekend, BBC's SATURDAY KITCHEN brings us the world's greatest culinary talents and shows us how to cook delicious food ri...
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Works of James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver CurwoodThe best known works of James Oliver Curwood in one collection with an active table of contents. Works include: The Alaskan Back to God's Country and Other Stories Baree, Son of Ka...
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Selected Writings
Gerard De NervalPoet, visionary, shortstory writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (18081855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography an...
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Lying in Wait
Liz NugentFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Unraveling Olivera brilliantly plotted, utterly immersive novel lauded by A.J. Finn#1 New York Times bes...
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A Brief History of the English Civil Wars
John MillerMiller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in B...
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On the Road
Richard HammondON THE ROAD: GROWING UP IN EIGHT JOURNEYS MY EARLY YEARS is a new form of autobiography, in which TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a se...
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The Last Protector
Andrew TaylorFrom the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.Over 1 Million...
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Ghostly
Audrey NiffeneggerSelected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetryincluding Audrey Niffenegger’s own stunning illustrations for each piecethis i...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey & Barry Milligan"Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profes...
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Little Cruelties
Liz NugentFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Lying in Wait, a biting and masterful “dark jewel of a novel” (A.J. Finn, #1New York Times bestselling a...
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Essays and Letters
Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth & Jeremy AdlerOne of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (17701843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of se...
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A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl
Audrey SalkeldLeni Riefenstahl will always be remembered for her brilliant film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin still rated as one of the best documentaries ever made. Before that she was a...
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Hollywood Hellraisers
Robert Sellers'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando'I should have been dea...
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As You Do
Richard HammondThe life and times of the No.1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE.The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic Explorer and general...
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The Metaphysical Club
Louis MenandThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book...
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Caleb Williams
William Godwin & Maurice HindleWhen honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper ...
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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens & Andrew Sanders'There's no writing against such power as this one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores t...
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The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror
Stephen Jones & Michael Marshall SmithWelcome 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...
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Rest in Pieces
Bess LovejoyA “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.For some of the most influential figures in history, deat...
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The Wolf Hunters, a tale of adventure in the wilderness
James Oliver CurwoodAccording to Wikipedia: "James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies,...
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Antarctic Atlas
Peter FretwellA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022One of the leastknown places on the planet, the only continent on...
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Works of James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood20 works of James Oliver Curwood American actionadventure writer and conservationist (18781927) This ebook presents a collection of 20 works of James Oliver Curwood. A dynamic tabl...
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Complete Romance Adventure of James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver CurwoodAn American actionadventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly topten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. At least eighteen mot...
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Piano Notes
Charles RosenIn this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, worldrenowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consid...
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American Studies
Louis MenandAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, ...
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An A-Z of Hellraisers
Robert SellersAn AZ of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander ...