Code name villanelle7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Which in turn explains the entry in his bibliography which stands out as most un- Villanelle like: his co-authorship of The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet…Ĭodename: Villanelle was optioned for the screen relatively quickly after the first novella, in spring 2014. ![]() These were mostly what Jennings calls “politely received but unprofitable novels,” adding “Our income was, to say the least, patchy.” That probably explains why he was dance critic at The Observer newspaper for 14 years. ![]() It wasn’t Jennings’s first published work: far from it, with Atlantic appearing back in 1995. It was followed by Villanelle: Hollowpoint in August, then Villanelle: Shanghai and Odessa in February and June of the following year. ![]() Codename: Villanelle was originally self-published by Jennings as four separate novellas, the first (with the same name) appearing in February 2014. With the second series of Killing Eve starting this month, and one of our most eagerly anticipated TV shows of the year, it seems a good point to take a look back at Luke Jennings’s original source material, and its translation to the small screen. Credit: Entertainment Weekly “You are an evolutionary necessity.” ![]()
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