Room at the Top (2012 film) Meadow Productions, which produced the film for BBC. It won a BAFTA Award for Best Miniseries in 2013. Room at the Top (2012 film) Room at the Top is a 2012 BBC television adaptation by Amanda Coe of John Braine's novel of the same name, with a cast led by Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh. It aired in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012 on BBC Four, but was originally due to premiere on 7 April 2011. A statement at the time said that delay was due to "a potential contractual
English novel been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) "Of Human Bondage" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction