The Pirates! The Pirates! The Pirates! is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics" was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation loosely adapted "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists " into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the
An Awfully Big Adventure (novel) of Liverpool, joins the company and gets entangled in the backstage intrigue. The title is an ironic reference to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says "To die will be an awfully big adventure." In 1995, Fine Line Features released a motion picture adaptation starring Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and then-unknown actress Georgina Cates in the central role. The film was directed by Mike Newell and is one of the only film versions of Bainbridge's works. An Awfully Big Adventure (novel) An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. It was short listed for the