Luke Jennings
Luke Jennings (born 1953) is a British author, dance critic and journalist. Jennings trained as a dancer at the Rambert School, was one of the students of the Expressionist and Integrated dance pedagoge Hilde Holger, studied Indian languages, and produced and directed a Channel 4 documentary filmed in Bombay. As a journalist, Jennings has written for "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker," and has reported from locations around the world, including Moscow. He was dance critic for "The Observer" and also wrote dance-related articles for "Time." Published works. Jennings' first novel, "Breach Candy" (1993), follows a recently  retired ballerina and an intelligent-but-wounded television director researching a Channel 4 documentary in Bombay. Jennings' novel, "Atlantic" (1995), which takes place in a cruise ship in the post-war years, was nominated for the Booker Prize. "Beauty Story" (1998) is a novel about a young actress who vanishes from a 16th-century English castle where she was filming a fragrance commercial. "Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing"—a 2010 memoir about fishing, and about "childhood innocence, paternal love, and his friendship with the charismatic, enigmatic" man who was later killed by the IRA while working as an intelligence  officer in Ireland—was shortlisted for the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and for the William Hill prize. With his daughter, Jennings co-wrote the "Stars" youth fiction series ("circa" 2013), about teenagers at a performing arts school. Jennings co-authored "The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet" (2014). Jennings' 2017 book "Codename Villanelle", a compilation of three serial Kindle edition novellas published between 2014 and 2016, was the basis for BBC America's "Killing Eve" television series. Though his 2018 sequel "" diverged from the television show, the books and show are said to "share common DNA" because of Jennings' continued  collaboration with the show's creators. A third volume of the Villanelle series, "", was released on 19 March 2020.