The L-Shaped Room (novel) The L-Shaped Room (novel) The L-Shaped Room is a 1960 British novel by Lynne Reid Banks which tells the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It was adapted into a film by Bryan Forbes with significant differences from the novel. "The L-Shaped Room" is set in the late 1950s and follows a young woman, Jane Graham, who arrives alone at a run-down boarding house in London after being turned out of her comfortable middle class home by her shocked father after telling him she
Iceberg (Banks novel) Iceberg (Banks novel) Iceberg is an original novel written by David Banks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was number 18 (of 61) in the Virgin New Adventures range and featured the Cybermen, being a sequel to the serials "The Invasion" and "The Tenth Planet". The events of the novel run concurrently with those of "Birthright". Banks as an actor portrayed the Cyber Leader in several "Doctor Who" serials. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Banks, appeared in "Doctor Who Magazine" #204. This was the first original "Doctor Who" novel to