Bel Ami the London College of Music. The music and lyrics were written by Alex Loveless. John Braine, the English novelist, stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that his first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), was based on "Bel Ami", but 'the critics didn't pick it up'. Bel Ami Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled "Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel" first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry
Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with "Bilton", a comic novel about journalists, and "The Bobby Dazzlers", a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year. "The Guardian" claimed "Bilton" and "The Bobby Dazzlers" "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the