Life at the Top (film) Life at the Top (film) Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel "Life at the Top" by John Braine, and is a sequel to the film "Room at the Top" (1959). It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. The film's art director Edward Marshall received a 1966 BAFTA Award nomination. The film stars Laurence Harvey, once
David Young (novelist) "Stasi Wolf" was longlisted for the 2017 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. David Young (novelist) David John Young (born 27 May 1958) is an English novelist whose award-winning crime thriller series featuring a fictional Volkspolizei detective, Karin Müller, is set in 1970s East Germany. Young's debut novel "Stasi Child" won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year. Both it and the follow-up, "Stasi Wolf", were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre, the UK