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Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s
Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain's most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art school in Germany to learn their trade, because of his admiration for German innovation.
Each spent a year there, befriending the families they stayed with. But within a few years of returning to England, war broke out and both eagerly enlisted in the army. How was it possible for allies to become enemies, and what motivated the boys' enthusiasm to fight?
In this memoir of the first two decades of the 20th century, Robert Best recalls the idealistic values that the boys learned while attending the most progressive boarding school of the time - Bedales - and how the spirit of the school carried them through the challenges of trench warfare in Northern France.
He talks in fascinating detail about what they learned at school and as enthusiastic First World War pilots in the Royal Flying Corps, of the boys' inventiveness and humour, and of their shared ambition to become music hall entertainers.
Introduction. Chapter 1: Signing up. Chapter 2: Schoolboy spirit. Chapter 3: From behind the front line. Chapter 4: How we had fun. Chapter 5: Army training at Boxmoor. Chapter 6: Quelling the Irish rebellion. Chapter 7: Back to school. Chapter 8: What Germany taught me. Chapter 9: What Germany taught Frank. Chapter 10: Taking to the Skies. Chapter 11: Closer to Heaven. Chapter 12: Is there anybody out there?
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
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£15.95
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AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s
Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain's most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art school in Germany to learn their trade, because of his admiration for German innovation.
Each spent a year there, befriending the families they stayed with. But within a few years of returning to England, war broke out and both eagerly enlisted in the army. How was it possible for allies to become enemies, and what motivated the boys' enthusiasm to fight?
In this memoir of the first two decades of the 20th century, Robert Best recalls the idealistic values that the boys learned while attending the most progressive boarding school of the time - Bedales - and how the spirit of the school carried them through the challenges of trench warfare in Northern France.
He talks in fascinating detail about what they learned at school and as enthusiastic First World War pilots in the Royal Flying Corps, of the boys' inventiveness and humour, and of their shared ambition to become music hall entertainers.
Endorsements
How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s
Introduction. Chapter 1: Signing up. Chapter 2: Schoolboy spirit. Chapter 3: From behind the front line. Chapter 4: How we had fun. Chapter 5: Army training at Boxmoor. Chapter 6: Quelling the Irish rebellion. Chapter 7: Back to school. Chapter 8: What Germany taught me. Chapter 9: What Germany taught Frank. Chapter 10: Taking to the Skies. Chapter 11: Closer to Heaven. Chapter 12: Is there anybody out there?
Gyles Brandreth
"A fascinating time capsule, beautifully written, beautifully observed. A vivid portrait of several vanished worlds."
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
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Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 427 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172022
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 27mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 1.05in
Contributor
Full Name: Robert Best
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Best
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Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
Subject
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Autobiography: general
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
EDUCATION / History
HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
HISTORY / Europe / General
MEMOIRS
History of education
First World War
European history
First World War, 1914-1918
Memoirs
History of education
European history
First World War
WWI; Music Hall; Edwardiana; Edwardians; Education
Reviews
AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s
Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain's most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art school in Germany to learn their trade, because of his admiration for German innovation.
Each spent a year there, befriending the families they stayed with. But within a few years of returning to England, war broke out and both eagerly enlisted in the army. How was it possible for allies to become enemies, and what motivated the boys' enthusiasm to fight?
In this memoir of the first two decades of the 20th century, Robert Best recalls the idealistic values that the boys learned while attending the most progressive boarding school of the time - Bedales - and how the spirit of the school carried them through the challenges of trench warfare in Northern France.
He talks in fascinating detail about what they learned at school and as enthusiastic First World War pilots in the Royal Flying Corps, of the boys' inventiveness and humour, and of their shared ambition to become music hall entertainers.
How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s
Introduction. Chapter 1: Signing up. Chapter 2: Schoolboy spirit. Chapter 3: From behind the front line. Chapter 4: How we had fun. Chapter 5: Army training at Boxmoor. Chapter 6: Quelling the Irish rebellion. Chapter 7: Back to school. Chapter 8: What Germany taught me. Chapter 9: What Germany taught Frank. Chapter 10: Taking to the Skies. Chapter 11: Closer to Heaven. Chapter 12: Is there anybody out there?
"A fascinating time capsule, beautifully written, beautifully observed. A vivid portrait of several vanished worlds."
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
Jonathan Lawley was born in N.E. India (now Pakistan) with family links going back five generations to the East India Company. After Indian independence, he moved with his parents to Africa, becoming the last white district commissioner in Zambia. He went on to work for Rio Tinto, setting up Africa’s first management training programme for black employees. He has been a director of the Royal African Society, and has campaigned energetically on African interests.
New from EnvelopeBooks - an important study in social anthropology
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean.
The Andamans were taken over by the British in the late 1850s for the establishment of a penal settlement following the Indian Mutiny, and the author's family was involved for several years in the islands' administration. They now belong to India.
For centuries, the islanders, whose origins can be traced back to Africa 100,000 years ago, have resisted all efforts to accommodate them into modern civilization. They are now at risk of extinction and there is no meaningful plan to protect their interests, other than by doing exactly what they do not want and engaging them in development programmes and giving them handouts.
Irrespective of the mistakes the British made in the past, India has had exclusive responsibility for these tribespeople for nearly 70 years and during this time its involvement has been a complete and destructive failure. India needs to recognise the urgency of the situation and intercede, at last, to give the people the security but also the privacy that they require, encouraged if necessary by other sovereign states.
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"In this new book Jonathan Lawley has turned his attention to the colonial service of his own family in India and the Andaman Islands, tracing the story of the islands and their aboriginal inhabitants through to the present day. It is a fascinating but sombre tale."
Jonathan Lawley was born in N.E. India (now Pakistan) with family links going back five generations to the East India Company. After Indian independence, he moved with his parents to Africa, becoming the last white district commissioner in Zambia. He went on to work for Rio Tinto, setting up Africa’s first management training programme for black employees. He has been a director of the Royal African Society, and has campaigned energetically on African interests.
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
Price
£13.95
Description
New from EnvelopeBooks - an important study in social anthropology
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean.
The Andamans were taken over by the British in the late 1850s for the establishment of a penal settlement following the Indian Mutiny, and the author's family was involved for several years in the islands' administration. They now belong to India.
For centuries, the islanders, whose origins can be traced back to Africa 100,000 years ago, have resisted all efforts to accommodate them into modern civilization. They are now at risk of extinction and there is no meaningful plan to protect their interests, other than by doing exactly what they do not want and engaging them in development programmes and giving them handouts.
Irrespective of the mistakes the British made in the past, India has had exclusive responsibility for these tribespeople for nearly 70 years and during this time its involvement has been a complete and destructive failure. India needs to recognise the urgency of the situation and intercede, at last, to give the people the security but also the privacy that they require, encouraged if necessary by other sovereign states.
Endorsements
Peter Hennessy
"An absorbing and intriguing story, beautifully presented."
John Simpson
"Deeply moving. Deserves our attention and our support."
Matthew Parris
"Anthropologically important, with a message pivotal to the survival of an indigenous island society on the edge of extinction."
Christopher Matthew
"Lawley's book is truly a revelation."
Richard Luce
"A fascinating book. I strongly recommend it."
Michael Holman, former Africa Editor, The Financial Times
"A compelling appeal for the world."
Hugh Tynsdale-Biscoe, former Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO
"In this new book Jonathan Lawley has turned his attention to the colonial service of his own family in India and the Andaman Islands, tracing the story of the islands and their aboriginal inhabitants through to the present day. It is a fascinating but sombre tale."
Jonathan Lawley was born in N.E. India (now Pakistan) with family links going back five generations to the East India Company. After Indian independence, he moved with his parents to Africa, becoming the last white district commissioner in Zambia. He went on to work for Rio Tinto, setting up Africa’s first management training programme for black employees. He has been a director of the Royal African Society, and has campaigned energetically on African interests.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 192 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172015
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 14mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.55in
Contributor
Full Name: Jonathan Lawley
First Name: Jonathan
Last Name: Lawley
Info:
Jonathan Lawley was born in N.E. India (now Pakistan) with family links going back five generations to the East India Company. After Indian independence, he moved with his parents to Africa, becoming the last white district commissioner in Zambia. He went on to work for Rio Tinto, setting up Africa’s first management training programme for black employees. He has been a director of the Royal African Society, and has campaigned energetically on African interests.
Subject
LAW / Environmental
Anthropology
LAW / Transportation
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
NATURE / Endangered Species
Indigenous peoples
Environment, transport & planning law
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
Endangered species & extinction of species
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Anthropology
Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity
National liberation and independence
Endangered species and extinction of species
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Environment, transport and planning law: general
tribespeople; Stone-age; Attenborough; extinction; tribes; Cultural studies
Reviews
New from EnvelopeBooks - an important study in social anthropology
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean.
The Andamans were taken over by the British in the late 1850s for the establishment of a penal settlement following the Indian Mutiny, and the author's family was involved for several years in the islands' administration. They now belong to India.
For centuries, the islanders, whose origins can be traced back to Africa 100,000 years ago, have resisted all efforts to accommodate them into modern civilization. They are now at risk of extinction and there is no meaningful plan to protect their interests, other than by doing exactly what they do not want and engaging them in development programmes and giving them handouts.
Irrespective of the mistakes the British made in the past, India has had exclusive responsibility for these tribespeople for nearly 70 years and during this time its involvement has been a complete and destructive failure. India needs to recognise the urgency of the situation and intercede, at last, to give the people the security but also the privacy that they require, encouraged if necessary by other sovereign states.
"An absorbing and intriguing story, beautifully presented."
Peter HennessyHistorian
"Deeply moving. Deserves our attention and our support."
John SimpsonWorld Affairs Editor, BBC News
"Anthropologically important, with a message pivotal to the survival of an indigenous island society on the edge of extinction."
Matthew ParrisWriter and broadcaster
"Lawley's book is truly a revelation."
Christopher MatthewWriter and Broadcaster
"A fascinating book. I strongly recommend it."
Richard LuceFormer UK Government Minister
"A compelling appeal for the world."
"In this new book Jonathan Lawley has turned his attention to the colonial service of his own family in India and the Andaman Islands, tracing the story of the islands and their aboriginal inhabitants through to the present day. It is a fascinating but sombre tale."
Jonathan Lawley was born in N.E. India (now Pakistan) with family links going back five generations to the East India Company. After Indian independence, he moved with his parents to Africa, becoming the last white district commissioner in Zambia. He went on to work for Rio Tinto, setting up Africa’s first management training programme for black employees. He has been a director of the Royal African Society, and has campaigned energetically on African interests.
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to collections of his reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
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"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Price
£13.95
Description
FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Endorsements
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Alexander McCall Smith
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
John Githongo
"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
Sir Malcolm Rifkind
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
Ed Balls
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 288 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172060
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 17.5mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.70in
08: 10.9oz
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Holman
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Holman
Info:
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to collections of his reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Subject
HISTORY / General
HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
HISTORY / Africa / General
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
African history
Reportage and collected journalism
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
History
African history
National liberation and independence
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
post-colonialism; Africa; ANC; Mandela; Mugabe; Military history; Military history Africa
Reviews
FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train.
The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation.
Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train.
The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation.
Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.
Endorsements
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 232 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172053
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 14.7mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.60in
Contributor
Full Name: Janina David
First Name: Janina
Last Name: David
Info:
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Short stories
Feminism & feminist theory
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Short stories
Feminism and feminist theory
early feminism; self-discovery; fiction about middle-aged women
Reviews
WRY TALES FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train.
The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation.
Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
Robert Mullen lives in Edinburgh. He was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. After studying at George Washington University, he did graduate work at the University of Alberta and became a lecturer at McGill University. His published works include a volume of short stories, Americas, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth First Book award, and Call of the Camino: Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela.
Men of Talent Sought! Only Superior Persons Need Apply!
A brilliant comic novel from EnvelopeBooks.
Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll.
A modern-day Chinese schoolteacher falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, scaling the heights of the imperial civil service—and then finding himself stranded.
All roads leads to the celestial city, and when schoolmaster Po Cheng drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng reaches the imperial capital, rising through the giddy ranks of the Chinese civil service to become prime minister.
Good fortune appears endless, not least when delectable Miss Ling reappears in his life as an artist's model who has changed her name to Precious Pearl so she can pose in the Forest of Brushes Academy of Art without her parents finding out.
But what Heaven—and alcohol—give, they can also claw back. With trouble brewing inside and outside the city walls, Po Cheng's career and life seem fated, and he must now take the inevitable consequences of his rise to fame and power.
Mustard Seed Itinerary is a hilarious first novel, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Chinese literature the wry humour of a Carrollian satirist.
Robert Mullen lives in Edinburgh. He was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. After studying at George Washington University, he did graduate work at the University of Alberta and became a lecturer at McGill University. His published works include a volume of short stories, Americas, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth First Book award, and Call of the Camino: Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela.
Men of Talent Sought! Only Superior Persons Need Apply!
A brilliant comic novel from EnvelopeBooks.
Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll.
A modern-day Chinese schoolteacher falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, scaling the heights of the imperial civil service—and then finding himself stranded.
All roads leads to the celestial city, and when schoolmaster Po Cheng drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng reaches the imperial capital, rising through the giddy ranks of the Chinese civil service to become prime minister.
Good fortune appears endless, not least when delectable Miss Ling reappears in his life as an artist's model who has changed her name to Precious Pearl so she can pose in the Forest of Brushes Academy of Art without her parents finding out.
But what Heaven—and alcohol—give, they can also claw back. With trouble brewing inside and outside the city walls, Po Cheng's career and life seem fated, and he must now take the inevitable consequences of his rise to fame and power.
Mustard Seed Itinerary is a hilarious first novel, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Chinese literature the wry humour of a Carrollian satirist.
Endorsements
Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll.
Maggie Bawden
A brilliantly comic dream journey into medieval China."
Robert Mullen lives in Edinburgh. He was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. After studying at George Washington University, he did graduate work at the University of Alberta and became a lecturer at McGill University. His published works include a volume of short stories, Americas, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth First Book award, and Call of the Camino: Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 302 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172046
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 19.3mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.75in
Contributor
Full Name: Robert Mullen
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Mullen
Info:
Robert Mullen lives in Edinburgh. He was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. After studying at George Washington University, he did graduate work at the University of Alberta and became a lecturer at McGill University. His published works include a volume of short stories, Americas, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth First Book award, and Call of the Camino: Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela.
Subject
FICTION / General
HISTORICAL FICTION
FICTION / Historical / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
Folklore, myths & legends
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Satirical fiction and parodies
Historical fiction
Narrative theme: politics / economics
Folklore studies / Study of myth
Historical Fiction/Fiction; comedy; China; Lewis Carroll; Buddhist; spoof
Reviews
Men of Talent Sought! Only Superior Persons Need Apply!
A brilliant comic novel from EnvelopeBooks.
Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll.
A modern-day Chinese schoolteacher falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, scaling the heights of the imperial civil service—and then finding himself stranded.
All roads leads to the celestial city, and when schoolmaster Po Cheng drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng reaches the imperial capital, rising through the giddy ranks of the Chinese civil service to become prime minister.
Good fortune appears endless, not least when delectable Miss Ling reappears in his life as an artist's model who has changed her name to Precious Pearl so she can pose in the Forest of Brushes Academy of Art without her parents finding out.
But what Heaven—and alcohol—give, they can also claw back. With trouble brewing inside and outside the city walls, Po Cheng's career and life seem fated, and he must now take the inevitable consequences of his rise to fame and power.
Mustard Seed Itinerary is a hilarious first novel, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Chinese literature the wry humour of a Carrollian satirist.
Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll.
A brilliantly comic dream journey into medieval China."
Robert Mullen lives in Edinburgh. He was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Virginia. After studying at George Washington University, he did graduate work at the University of Alberta and became a lecturer at McGill University. His published works include a volume of short stories, Americas, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth First Book award, and Call of the Camino: Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela.
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where one of his grandfathers and one of his great-grandfathers helped build the Titanic between 1909-12. He studied Russian at Queen's University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales. He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist. Back in Belfast, he created library services for the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland.
Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time.
But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in a culture dominated by divides that weren’t just sectarian.
To his surprise and increasing anguish his memories—long buried—prove elusive, so that finding out what had really happened and why it got suppressed becomes more and more of an obsession.
As Michael gradually uncovers forgotten truths he starts to learn something that challenges everything he ever knew about himself and the person he has become.
Frances Creighton: Found and Lostis a deeply felt first novel that conveys the pain of late adolescence in a community where school and religion add more layers of cruelty to the underlying instability of daily life and Northern Irish politics.
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where one of his grandfathers and one of his great-grandfathers helped build the Titanic between 1909-12. He studied Russian at Queen's University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales. He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist. Back in Belfast, he created library services for the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland.
Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time.
But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in a culture dominated by divides that weren’t just sectarian.
To his surprise and increasing anguish his memories—long buried—prove elusive, so that finding out what had really happened and why it got suppressed becomes more and more of an obsession.
As Michael gradually uncovers forgotten truths he starts to learn something that challenges everything he ever knew about himself and the person he has become.
Frances Creighton: Found and Lostis a deeply felt first novel that conveys the pain of late adolescence in a community where school and religion add more layers of cruelty to the underlying instability of daily life and Northern Irish politics.
Endorsements
You can't escape the pain of one lost love by immersing yourself in another.
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where one of his grandfathers and one of his great-grandfathers helped build the Titanic between 1909-12. He studied Russian at Queen's University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales. He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist. Back in Belfast, he created library services for the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 188 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172077
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 14.2mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.55in
Contributor
Full Name: Kirby Porter
First Name: Kirby
Last Name: Porter
Info:
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where one of his grandfathers and one of his great-grandfathers helped build the Titanic between 1909-12. He studied Russian at Queen's University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales. He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist. Back in Belfast, he created library services for the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
adolescent love; The Troubles; sectarianism; Northern Ireland; Ulster
Reviews
Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time.
But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in a culture dominated by divides that weren’t just sectarian.
To his surprise and increasing anguish his memories—long buried—prove elusive, so that finding out what had really happened and why it got suppressed becomes more and more of an obsession.
As Michael gradually uncovers forgotten truths he starts to learn something that challenges everything he ever knew about himself and the person he has become.
Frances Creighton: Found and Lostis a deeply felt first novel that conveys the pain of late adolescence in a community where school and religion add more layers of cruelty to the underlying instability of daily life and Northern Irish politics.
You can't escape the pain of one lost love by immersing yourself in another.
Kirby Porter grew up in Belfast near the Harland and Wolff shipyard where one of his grandfathers and one of his great-grandfathers helped build the Titanic between 1909-12. He studied Russian at Queen's University Belfast and took further degrees at the University of London and the University of Wales. He became Head of Library Services for a North London borough, gave talks on Russian and Irish Poetry, and was an active trade unionist. Back in Belfast, he created library services for the Northern Ireland Assembly, as well as teaching courses in Information Management at the University of Ulster. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland.
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress.
Robert Best, one of Britain's leading industrialists in this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by Modernism's promoters, for reasons that they found hard to understand. If the few knew better than the many, and had an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society prided itself on? Best felt that the campaign to popularise Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had uncomfortable political overtones.
In this extraordinary memoir, written in the early 1950s but never previously published, Best explored his concern about the sense of noblesse oblige that lay behind such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in 1944 ostensibly to raise the saleability and quality of British manufacturing but also, in his view, to brainwash the public into denying what it liked in favour of more cultivated but untested alternatives.
Robert Dudley Best (1892-1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed-first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany's best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father's business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress.
Robert Best, one of Britain's leading industrialists in this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by Modernism's promoters, for reasons that they found hard to understand. If the few knew better than the many, and had an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society prided itself on? Best felt that the campaign to popularise Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had uncomfortable political overtones.
In this extraordinary memoir, written in the early 1950s but never previously published, Best explored his concern about the sense of noblesse oblige that lay behind such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in 1944 ostensibly to raise the saleability and quality of British manufacturing but also, in his view, to brainwash the public into denying what it liked in favour of more cultivated but untested alternatives.
Endorsements
Robert Dudley Best (1892-1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed-first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany's best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father's business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 296 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172084
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 21.6mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.85in
Contributor
Full Name: Robert Best
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Best
Info:
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
Subject
ART / History / General
HISTORY OF ART / ART & DESIGN STYLES
DESIGN / General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing
HISTORY / Social History
ART / Movements / Modernism
DESIGN / History & Criticism
ARCHITECTURE / General
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General
Individual designers
MEMOIRS
Manufacturing industries
Industrialisation & industrial history
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus
ARCHITECTURE
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
20th century
Architecture
Individual designers or design groups
Industrialisation and industrial history
Manufacturing industries
Modernism
Memoirs
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Gropius; British industry; 1930s; design; art
Reviews
For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress.
Robert Best, one of Britain's leading industrialists in this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by Modernism's promoters, for reasons that they found hard to understand. If the few knew better than the many, and had an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society prided itself on? Best felt that the campaign to popularise Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had uncomfortable political overtones.
In this extraordinary memoir, written in the early 1950s but never previously published, Best explored his concern about the sense of noblesse oblige that lay behind such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in 1944 ostensibly to raise the saleability and quality of British manufacturing but also, in his view, to brainwash the public into denying what it liked in favour of more cultivated but untested alternatives.
Robert Dudley Best (1892-1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed-first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany's best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.
Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father's business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry.
Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire.
Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle sets out to explore Gaia’s culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption that goes to the heart of Regency Bath’s judicial system.
In doing so, he struggles to retain the commitment of his German “cousin”, and Princess Victoria—not yet Queen—persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression.
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry.
Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire.
Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle sets out to explore Gaia’s culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption that goes to the heart of Regency Bath’s judicial system.
In doing so, he struggles to retain the commitment of his German “cousin”, and Princess Victoria—not yet Queen—persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression.
Endorsements
Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles!
Alexander McCall Smith
"A real romp of a book - full of surprises!"
Jeanette Winterson
"Funny, clever, silly in the right way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending. I love the alt-Regency Bath that Keeling has built."
Matthew Parris
"By turns incisive, outlandish and hilarious!...there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles, half-modern, half-Dickensian."
Peter Tatchell
"Bravo. A rollicking tale of corruption, intrigue and romance. A racy read!"
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 288 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023025
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 18.3mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.70in
Contributor
Full Name: William Keeling
First Name: William
Last Name: Keeling
Info:
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Historical / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
HISTORICAL FICTION
Social discrimination
c 1800 to c 1900
Of specific Gay interest
Historical fiction
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics
Relating to gay people
Social discrimination and social justice
c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period)
1830s; Bigotry; Bridgerton; Comedy; Equality; Gay; Historical Fiction; Human Rights; Jane Austen; Justice; Regency
Reviews
Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles!
When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry.
Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire.
Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle sets out to explore Gaia’s culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption that goes to the heart of Regency Bath’s judicial system.
In doing so, he struggles to retain the commitment of his German “cousin”, and Princess Victoria—not yet Queen—persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression.
Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles!
"A real romp of a book - full of surprises!"
"Funny, clever, silly in the right way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending. I love the alt-Regency Bath that Keeling has built."
"By turns incisive, outlandish and hilarious!...there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles, half-modern, half-Dickensian."
"Bravo. A rollicking tale of corruption, intrigue and romance. A racy read!"
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
Gheorghe Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in the masterclass of Francisc Sirato. During the Second World War he worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci.
An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience.
The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War.
He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity and torture, his personal fight against Fascism would be acknowledged by his liberated compatriots.
It wasn't. Under the Communist government that came to power in late 1947, he was sent back to prison and stranded there, for 13 years, in the most inhuman conditions.
Against the odds, he survived. This is his story, translated from the French by Jane Reid, whose husband at the British Embassy in Bucharest managed to persuade the Romanians to allow Tomaziu, his wife and child to leave the country. Tomaziu settled in Paris, where he wrote this account but could not find a publisher for it. He died in 1990.
George Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was the godson of Romania’s most celebrated composer and musician, Georges Enescu, who was married to Princess Cantacuzino and lived in a palace. Nothing in his early life suggested the toughness needed to withstand abuse. On the contrary, his artistic spirit expressed itself in a voracious bi-sexuality and hunger for pleasure. At one point during the war, he was artistic director of the Odessa Opera, but he also worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci. A year later, he was in Romania’s most notorious prison.
Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
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£12.95
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NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience.
The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War.
He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity and torture, his personal fight against Fascism would be acknowledged by his liberated compatriots.
It wasn't. Under the Communist government that came to power in late 1947, he was sent back to prison and stranded there, for 13 years, in the most inhuman conditions.
Against the odds, he survived. This is his story, translated from the French by Jane Reid, whose husband at the British Embassy in Bucharest managed to persuade the Romanians to allow Tomaziu, his wife and child to leave the country. Tomaziu settled in Paris, where he wrote this account but could not find a publisher for it. He died in 1990.
Endorsements
An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience.
George Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was the godson of Romania’s most celebrated composer and musician, Georges Enescu, who was married to Princess Cantacuzino and lived in a palace. Nothing in his early life suggested the toughness needed to withstand abuse. On the contrary, his artistic spirit expressed itself in a voracious bi-sexuality and hunger for pleasure. At one point during the war, he was artistic director of the Odessa Opera, but he also worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci. A year later, he was in Romania’s most notorious prison.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 228 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023049
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 14.7mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.60in
Contributor
Full Name: George Tomaziu
First Name: George
Last Name: Tomaziu
Info:
Gheorghe Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in the masterclass of Francisc Sirato. During the Second World War he worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci.
Subject
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Autobiography: historical, political & military
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
HISTORY / Military / General
Fascism & Nazism
Prisoners of war
Autobiography: historical, political and military
Prisoners of war
Far-right political ideologies and movements
Political Science; /Politics; Espionage; Torture; Political incarceration; Fascists. Len Deighton
Reviews
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience.
The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War.
He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity and torture, his personal fight against Fascism would be acknowledged by his liberated compatriots.
It wasn't. Under the Communist government that came to power in late 1947, he was sent back to prison and stranded there, for 13 years, in the most inhuman conditions.
Against the odds, he survived. This is his story, translated from the French by Jane Reid, whose husband at the British Embassy in Bucharest managed to persuade the Romanians to allow Tomaziu, his wife and child to leave the country. Tomaziu settled in Paris, where he wrote this account but could not find a publisher for it. He died in 1990.
An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience.
George Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was the godson of Romania’s most celebrated composer and musician, Georges Enescu, who was married to Princess Cantacuzino and lived in a palace. Nothing in his early life suggested the toughness needed to withstand abuse. On the contrary, his artistic spirit expressed itself in a voracious bi-sexuality and hunger for pleasure. At one point during the war, he was artistic director of the Odessa Opera, but he also worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci. A year later, he was in Romania’s most notorious prison.
Brian Verity lived through the trauma of finding he had married into a family whose members all carried the gene for Huntington’s disease and who suffered accordingly―as he did, for other reasons. It became his mission to mitigate the consequences of their condition and educate the public about its horrors. Following his wife’s suicide, he was questioned at length by the police and kept under surveillance for a year. He went on to campaign for voluntary euthanasia. He died in 2019.
A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner
Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their 40s.
Many do not know they carry the gene or are at risk of passing it on. Those who do know, because a parent has suffered from it, may wait a lifetime before finding out whether they are safe or not.
The prospects are horrific. After his first marriage failed, Brian Verity had a breakdown and married the woman who had nursed him back to health. Within a few years, she started showing the signs of Huntington’s that he had noticed in other members of her family and of which he already had a morbid fear.
Having fallen in love with her in hospital, he now found himself repelled by what was happening to her, fearful of his own psychological fragility and inability to cope, and yet committed to protecting her from the distress that lay in wait.
What should he have done? What should society do?
Why My Wife Had to Die is a blunt indictment of the inability of political, legal, religious and health professionals to face up to what the author regarded as incontrovertible truths.
Brian Verity lived through the trauma of finding he had married into a family whose members all carried the gene for Huntington’s disease and who suffered accordingly―as he did, for other reasons. It became his mission to mitigate the consequences of their condition and educate the public about its horrors. Following his wife’s suicide, he was questioned at length by the police and kept under surveillance for a year. He went on to campaign for voluntary euthanasia. He died in 2019.
A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner
Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their 40s.
Many do not know they carry the gene or are at risk of passing it on. Those who do know, because a parent has suffered from it, may wait a lifetime before finding out whether they are safe or not.
The prospects are horrific. After his first marriage failed, Brian Verity had a breakdown and married the woman who had nursed him back to health. Within a few years, she started showing the signs of Huntington’s that he had noticed in other members of her family and of which he already had a morbid fear.
Having fallen in love with her in hospital, he now found himself repelled by what was happening to her, fearful of his own psychological fragility and inability to cope, and yet committed to protecting her from the distress that lay in wait.
What should he have done? What should society do?
Why My Wife Had to Die is a blunt indictment of the inability of political, legal, religious and health professionals to face up to what the author regarded as incontrovertible truths.
Endorsements
A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner.
Brian Verity lived through the trauma of finding he had married into a family whose members all carried the gene for Huntington’s disease and who suffered accordingly―as he did, for other reasons. It became his mission to mitigate the consequences of their condition and educate the public about its horrors. Following his wife’s suicide, he was questioned at length by the police and kept under surveillance for a year. He went on to campaign for voluntary euthanasia. He died in 2019.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 220 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023032
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 14mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.55in
Contributor
Full Name: Brian Verity
First Name: Brian
Last Name: Verity
Info:
Brian Verity lived through the trauma of finding he had married into a family whose members all carried the gene for Huntington’s disease and who suffered accordingly―as he did, for other reasons. It became his mission to mitigate the consequences of their condition and educate the public about its horrors. Following his wife’s suicide, he was questioned at length by the police and kept under surveillance for a year. He went on to campaign for voluntary euthanasia. He died in 2019.
Subject
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Autobiography: general
MEDICAL / Ethics
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Medical ethics & professional conduct
MEMOIRS
Ethical issues & debates
Medical ethics and professional conduct
Ethical issues, topics and debates
Memoirs
Medical stories; Huntington's; Chorea; Assisted dying; anger; selfishness
Reviews
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner
Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their 40s.
Many do not know they carry the gene or are at risk of passing it on. Those who do know, because a parent has suffered from it, may wait a lifetime before finding out whether they are safe or not.
The prospects are horrific. After his first marriage failed, Brian Verity had a breakdown and married the woman who had nursed him back to health. Within a few years, she started showing the signs of Huntington’s that he had noticed in other members of her family and of which he already had a morbid fear.
Having fallen in love with her in hospital, he now found himself repelled by what was happening to her, fearful of his own psychological fragility and inability to cope, and yet committed to protecting her from the distress that lay in wait.
What should he have done? What should society do?
Why My Wife Had to Die is a blunt indictment of the inability of political, legal, religious and health professionals to face up to what the author regarded as incontrovertible truths.
A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner.
Brian Verity lived through the trauma of finding he had married into a family whose members all carried the gene for Huntington’s disease and who suffered accordingly―as he did, for other reasons. It became his mission to mitigate the consequences of their condition and educate the public about its horrors. Following his wife’s suicide, he was questioned at length by the police and kept under surveillance for a year. He went on to campaign for voluntary euthanasia. He died in 2019.
Marguerite Poland (born 1950 in Johannesburg and brought up in the Eastern Cape) is a celebrated South African writer of books for adults and children. She studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa, took a master’s in Zulu literature and folktales, and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books won South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over ten years. The Keeper received the 2015 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award as the title South African booksellers most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK, the author won South Africa’s highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages, literature and anthropology.
A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust.
Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher.
He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors in the 1870s, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and take her a message that will break her heart.
In this raw and compelling story, Marguerite Poland employs her massive experience as a writer and African linguist to recreate the polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its betrayal of the very people that it claimed to be enlightening.
"It's a rare book that punishes the sins of the past with beauty, but Marguerite Poland knows the power of doing just that. Quietly, implacably, in writing that cuts to the heart of the matter, she draws us into the life of Stephen Mzamane, a young South African trained for Christian missionary work, eager to serve both God and his own people but hampered by conflicted loyalties and the entrenched prejudices of both society and the Anglican Church. Set in the late nineteenth century, the bells of Canterbury and the bells of Africa ring out a story of what was, what might have been, and what in some places, shamefully, still is. An important story, then, and a difficult one, but in the hands of Marguerite Poland, a story luminously told."
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"Marguerite Poland, as always, is able to use words to paint reality. She has written an incredibly moving and compassionate yet piercing historical account which both demands apologies for the sins of the past yet is also redemptive." Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town
"I love the book and admire its courage, to say nothing of its skilfulness. The subject is painful. Reading the manuscript, I was driven to tears more times than I care to remember. I couldn't stop thinking: if this is what priests thought, why do we wonder Apartheid happened? It is horrifying but also humbling to see how, with the best intentions, we err and betray the very values we preach. Marguerite Poland is to be commended for writing such a revelatory account of societal attitudes. The book is fiction but is based on church history and bigotry parading as decency. This is a painful and humbling reminder that none of us is above erroneous judgment."
Marguerite Poland (born 1950 in Johannesburg and brought up in the Eastern Cape) is a celebrated South African writer of books for adults and children. She studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa, took a master’s in Zulu literature and folktales, and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books won South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over ten years. The Keeper received the 2015 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award as the title South African booksellers most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK, the author won South Africa’s highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages, literature and anthropology.
A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust.
Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher.
He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors in the 1870s, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and take her a message that will break her heart.
In this raw and compelling story, Marguerite Poland employs her massive experience as a writer and African linguist to recreate the polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its betrayal of the very people that it claimed to be enlightening.
Endorsements
A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust.
"It's a rare book that punishes the sins of the past with beauty, but Marguerite Poland knows the power of doing just that. Quietly, implacably, in writing that cuts to the heart of the matter, she draws us into the life of Stephen Mzamane, a young South African trained for Christian missionary work, eager to serve both God and his own people but hampered by conflicted loyalties and the entrenched prejudices of both society and the Anglican Church. Set in the late nineteenth century, the bells of Canterbury and the bells of Africa ring out a story of what was, what might have been, and what in some places, shamefully, still is. An important story, then, and a difficult one, but in the hands of Marguerite Poland, a story luminously told."
"A wrenching, deeply felt story about Stephen Malusi Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, trained in England but now marooned in a rundown mission in Fort Beaufort...battling the prejudices of colonial society, and the church itself."
John Mbangyeno
"An emotional rollercoaster-the astonishing love story of a man for a church, an ideal and a woman. Heart-wrenching."
Mark Gevisser, novelist and critic
"Poland is a worthy descendant of Olive Schreiner in her heritage and passions."
Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town
"Marguerite Poland, as always, is able to use words to paint reality. She has written an incredibly moving and compassionate yet piercing historical account which both demands apologies for the sins of the past yet is also redemptive." Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town
Dr Sindiwe Magona, writer
"I love the book and admire its courage, to say nothing of its skilfulness. The subject is painful. Reading the manuscript, I was driven to tears more times than I care to remember. I couldn't stop thinking: if this is what priests thought, why do we wonder Apartheid happened? It is horrifying but also humbling to see how, with the best intentions, we err and betray the very values we preach. Marguerite Poland is to be commended for writing such a revelatory account of societal attitudes. The book is fiction but is based on church history and bigotry parading as decency. This is a painful and humbling reminder that none of us is above erroneous judgment."
Marguerite Poland (born 1950 in Johannesburg and brought up in the Eastern Cape) is a celebrated South African writer of books for adults and children. She studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa, took a master’s in Zulu literature and folktales, and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books won South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over ten years. The Keeper received the 2015 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award as the title South African booksellers most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK, the author won South Africa’s highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages, literature and anthropology.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 428 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172039
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 27.2mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 1.05in
Contributor
Full Name: Marguerite Poland
First Name: Marguerite
Last Name: Poland
Info:
Marguerite Poland (born 1950 in Johannesburg and brought up in the Eastern Cape) is a celebrated South African writer of books for adults and children. She studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa, took a master’s in Zulu literature and folktales, and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books won South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over ten years. The Keeper received the 2015 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award as the title South African booksellers most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK, the author won South Africa’s highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages, literature and anthropology.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
HISTORY / Africa / General
African history
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
African history
Reviews
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust.
Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher.
He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors in the 1870s, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and take her a message that will break her heart.
In this raw and compelling story, Marguerite Poland employs her massive experience as a writer and African linguist to recreate the polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its betrayal of the very people that it claimed to be enlightening.
A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust.
"It's a rare book that punishes the sins of the past with beauty, but Marguerite Poland knows the power of doing just that. Quietly, implacably, in writing that cuts to the heart of the matter, she draws us into the life of Stephen Mzamane, a young South African trained for Christian missionary work, eager to serve both God and his own people but hampered by conflicted loyalties and the entrenched prejudices of both society and the Anglican Church. Set in the late nineteenth century, the bells of Canterbury and the bells of Africa ring out a story of what was, what might have been, and what in some places, shamefully, still is. An important story, then, and a difficult one, but in the hands of Marguerite Poland, a story luminously told."
"A wrenching, deeply felt story about Stephen Malusi Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, trained in England but now marooned in a rundown mission in Fort Beaufort...battling the prejudices of colonial society, and the church itself."
"An emotional rollercoaster-the astonishing love story of a man for a church, an ideal and a woman. Heart-wrenching."
John MbangyenoAfrica Now
"Poland is a worthy descendant of Olive Schreiner in her heritage and passions."
"Marguerite Poland, as always, is able to use words to paint reality. She has written an incredibly moving and compassionate yet piercing historical account which both demands apologies for the sins of the past yet is also redemptive." Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town
"I love the book and admire its courage, to say nothing of its skilfulness. The subject is painful. Reading the manuscript, I was driven to tears more times than I care to remember. I couldn't stop thinking: if this is what priests thought, why do we wonder Apartheid happened? It is horrifying but also humbling to see how, with the best intentions, we err and betray the very values we preach. Marguerite Poland is to be commended for writing such a revelatory account of societal attitudes. The book is fiction but is based on church history and bigotry parading as decency. This is a painful and humbling reminder that none of us is above erroneous judgment."
Marguerite Poland (born 1950 in Johannesburg and brought up in the Eastern Cape) is a celebrated South African writer of books for adults and children. She studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa, took a master’s in Zulu literature and folktales, and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books won South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over ten years. The Keeper received the 2015 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award as the title South African booksellers most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK, the author won South Africa’s highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages, literature and anthropology.
Tunde Ososanya (born 1990) is a broadcast journalist living in Nigeria. A graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, he currently works at the BBC’s West Africa bureau in Lagos and specialises in reporting in Pidgin English. He began his career as a television presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority in 2016, going on to become a Senior Editor with Legit.ng. He has also been a contributing writer for Opera News. He is a fellow of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). This is his second book. His first book, Later Tonight, came out in 2016.
Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun's answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician's son? Will Musa's friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram's attack on their village?
The life of the underprivileged, whether in urban Lagos or in the countryside in northern Nigeria, is always desperate and provisional. In this collection of twelve short stories, Tunde Ososanya exposes the challenges of daily life and the efforts of ordinary people to aspire in the face of overwhelming odds.
There are distractions. Humour is one, observed in the audacity of conmen who ride the yellow danfo buses. Magic is another, in the spirit world that Mr Benson asks his Literature-in-English students to write about. But the most immediate is always sex, the ultimate escape.
Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.
Tunde Ososanya (born 1990) is a broadcast journalist living in Nigeria. A graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, he currently works at the BBC’s West Africa bureau in Lagos and specialises in reporting in Pidgin English. He began his career as a television presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority in 2016, going on to become a Senior Editor with Legit.ng. He has also been a contributing writer for Opera News. He is a fellow of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). This is his second book. His first book, Later Tonight, came out in 2016.
Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun's answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician's son? Will Musa's friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram's attack on their village?
The life of the underprivileged, whether in urban Lagos or in the countryside in northern Nigeria, is always desperate and provisional. In this collection of twelve short stories, Tunde Ososanya exposes the challenges of daily life and the efforts of ordinary people to aspire in the face of overwhelming odds.
There are distractions. Humour is one, observed in the audacity of conmen who ride the yellow danfo buses. Magic is another, in the spirit world that Mr Benson asks his Literature-in-English students to write about. But the most immediate is always sex, the ultimate escape.
Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.
Endorsements
Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.
Tunde Ososanya (born 1990) is a broadcast journalist living in Nigeria. A graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, he currently works at the BBC’s West Africa bureau in Lagos and specialises in reporting in Pidgin English. He began his career as a television presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority in 2016, going on to become a Senior Editor with Legit.ng. He has also been a contributing writer for Opera News. He is a fellow of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). This is his second book. His first book, Later Tonight, came out in 2016.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 148 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023100
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 16mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.65in
Contributor
Full Name: Tunde Ososanya
First Name: Tunde
Last Name: Ososanya
Info:
Tunde Ososanya (born 1990) is a broadcast journalist living in Nigeria. A graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, he currently works at the BBC’s West Africa bureau in Lagos and specialises in reporting in Pidgin English. He began his career as a television presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority in 2016, going on to become a Senior Editor with Legit.ng. He has also been a contributing writer for Opera News. He is a fellow of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). This is his second book. His first book, Later Tonight, came out in 2016.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Short stories
Nigeria
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Short stories
Nigeria
Lagos; Nigeria; Africa
Reviews
Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun's answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician's son? Will Musa's friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram's attack on their village?
The life of the underprivileged, whether in urban Lagos or in the countryside in northern Nigeria, is always desperate and provisional. In this collection of twelve short stories, Tunde Ososanya exposes the challenges of daily life and the efforts of ordinary people to aspire in the face of overwhelming odds.
There are distractions. Humour is one, observed in the audacity of conmen who ride the yellow danfo buses. Magic is another, in the spirit world that Mr Benson asks his Literature-in-English students to write about. But the most immediate is always sex, the ultimate escape.
Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.
Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.
Tunde Ososanya (born 1990) is a broadcast journalist living in Nigeria. A graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, he currently works at the BBC’s West Africa bureau in Lagos and specialises in reporting in Pidgin English. He began his career as a television presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority in 2016, going on to become a Senior Editor with Legit.ng. He has also been a contributing writer for Opera News. He is a fellow of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). This is his second book. His first book, Later Tonight, came out in 2016.
Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community's strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.
The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she divides her time between Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities, and North Carolina, USA.
How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys?
The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values.
Kulsum wants her daughters to have an education that will expand their horizons; Razaak fears that education will make the girls unmarriageable within the Khumbar caste. Feeling sidelined by Kulsum's modernity and her other achievements, Razaak defers to his father and sends their daughters to a less sophisticated branch of the family over 1000 miles away in rural Uganda. How should Kulsum respond?
In this affectionate picture of a little-documented African cultural milieu, first-time author Fatima Kara digs into her own memories of life as a Gujarati in Bulawayo, conjuring up the brilliant colours, mouth-watering foods and exotic plant life of a region she remains devoted to and wants us to love as she does.
Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.
The book was shortlisted for the UK’s Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020. The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.
How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys?
The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values.
Kulsum wants her daughters to have an education that will expand their horizons; Razaak fears that education will make the girls unmarriageable within the Khumbar caste. Feeling sidelined by Kulsum's modernity and her other achievements, Razaak defers to his father and sends their daughters to a less sophisticated branch of the family over 1000 miles away in rural Uganda. How should Kulsum respond?
In this affectionate picture of a little-documented African cultural milieu, first-time author Fatima Kara digs into her own memories of life as a Gujarati in Bulawayo, conjuring up the brilliant colours, mouth-watering foods and exotic plant life of a region she remains devoted to and wants us to love as she does.
Endorsements
How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys?
Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.
The book was shortlisted for the UK’s Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020. The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 328 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023094
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 24.6mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.95in
Contributor
Full Name: Fatima Kara
First Name: Fatima
Last Name: Kara
Info:
Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community's strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.
The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she divides her time between Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities, and North Carolina, USA.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Indians; Family saga; Muslims; Rhodesia; Bulawayo
Reviews
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys?
The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values.
Kulsum wants her daughters to have an education that will expand their horizons; Razaak fears that education will make the girls unmarriageable within the Khumbar caste. Feeling sidelined by Kulsum's modernity and her other achievements, Razaak defers to his father and sends their daughters to a less sophisticated branch of the family over 1000 miles away in rural Uganda. How should Kulsum respond?
In this affectionate picture of a little-documented African cultural milieu, first-time author Fatima Kara digs into her own memories of life as a Gujarati in Bulawayo, conjuring up the brilliant colours, mouth-watering foods and exotic plant life of a region she remains devoted to and wants us to love as she does.
How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys?
Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.
The book was shortlisted for the UK’s Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020. The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump
Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others.
At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean love. His heartache leads to confusions when he meets Pablo Fanque, the Black equestrian acrobat from Norfolk who longs to set up his own circus. As a well-loved figure in Bath, Belle uses his influence to try and help, but has to run the gauntlet of Lord Servitude, the most hated man in England and a die-hard supporter of slavery. As ever, William Keeling's whimsical tale brings Belle, his gay hero, into a situation where comedy does not obscure stark moral issues to do with prejudice and bigotry that are as alive today as they were in Regency times.
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump
Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others.
At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean love. His heartache leads to confusions when he meets Pablo Fanque, the Black equestrian acrobat from Norfolk who longs to set up his own circus. As a well-loved figure in Bath, Belle uses his influence to try and help, but has to run the gauntlet of Lord Servitude, the most hated man in England and a die-hard supporter of slavery. As ever, William Keeling's whimsical tale brings Belle, his gay hero, into a situation where comedy does not obscure stark moral issues to do with prejudice and bigotry that are as alive today as they were in Regency times.
Endorsements
An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump
Alexander McCall Smith
"A real romp of a book - full of surprises""
Jeanette Winterson
"Funny, clever, silly in the right kind of way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending."
Matthew Parris
"Incisive, outlandish and hilarious...there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles."
Peter Tatchell
"Bravo! A rollicking tale of corruption, intrigue and romance."
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 320 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023117
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 23.1mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.90in
Contributor
Full Name: William Keeling
First Name: William
Last Name: Keeling
Info:
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Historical / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies
HISTORICAL FICTION
Social discrimination
Gay & Lesbian studies
c 1800 to c 1900
Of specific Gay interest
Historical fiction
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics
Relating to gay people
Social discrimination and social justice
c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period)
1830s; Bridgerton; Comedy; Equality; Gay; Jane Austen; Justice; Bigotry; Regency; Historical Fiction; Human Rights
Reviews
An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump
Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others.
At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean love. His heartache leads to confusions when he meets Pablo Fanque, the Black equestrian acrobat from Norfolk who longs to set up his own circus. As a well-loved figure in Bath, Belle uses his influence to try and help, but has to run the gauntlet of Lord Servitude, the most hated man in England and a die-hard supporter of slavery. As ever, William Keeling's whimsical tale brings Belle, his gay hero, into a situation where comedy does not obscure stark moral issues to do with prejudice and bigotry that are as alive today as they were in Regency times.
An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump
"A real romp of a book - full of surprises""
"Funny, clever, silly in the right kind of way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending."
"Incisive, outlandish and hilarious...there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles."
"Bravo! A rollicking tale of corruption, intrigue and romance."
William Keeling is a former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times who exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria that led to his summary deportation. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co-owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. Like his late uncle (referred to in The Gay Street Chronicles), he has a creative mind. He lives and writes in Somerset.
In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death.
But hang on!―Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and Baron Julius von Stulpnagel were living together in Berlin, trying to sell forged paintings. So what are they doing in rundown Ballingore, and how will ex-convent-girl Mary Collins and her devoted red-headed sidekick Niamh Slattery play into their hands? This hilarious Irish farce brilliantly recreates the slapstick flavour of an Ealing Studios comedy.
In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death.
But hang on!―Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and Baron Julius von Stulpnagel were living together in Berlin, trying to sell forged paintings. So what are they doing in rundown Ballingore, and how will ex-convent-girl Mary Collins and her devoted red-headed sidekick Niamh Slattery play into their hands? This hilarious Irish farce brilliantly recreates the slapstick flavour of an Ealing Studios comedy.
Endorsements
K.J. Kelly likes exploring the historic relics of the English land-owning classes in Ireland, a sensitive topic but one rich in unintentional comedy.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 246 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023148
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 20mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.80in
08: 8oz
Contributor
Full Name: KJ Kelly
First Name: KJ
Last Name: Kelly
Info:
K.J. Kelly likes exploring the historic relics of the English land-owning classes in Ireland, a sensitive topic but one rich in unintentional comedy.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / War & Military
FICTION / Romance / Historical / General
TRUE CRIME / Espionage
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage
Second World War fiction
Historical romance
Espionage & secret services
Ireland
Western Continental Europe
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Historical romance
Second World War fiction
Espionage and secret services
Ireland
WW2 novels; world war II; spies; second world war; romance; roddy doyle; Ireland; culture/humour; farce; comic novel; Comedy
Reviews
In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death.
But hang on!―Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and Baron Julius von Stulpnagel were living together in Berlin, trying to sell forged paintings. So what are they doing in rundown Ballingore, and how will ex-convent-girl Mary Collins and her devoted red-headed sidekick Niamh Slattery play into their hands? This hilarious Irish farce brilliantly recreates the slapstick flavour of an Ealing Studios comedy.
K.J. Kelly likes exploring the historic relics of the English land-owning classes in Ireland, a sensitive topic but one rich in unintentional comedy.
Chris Hilton has visited Cuba over thirty times and lived there twice. The events described in this book took place in the early 2000s, during the final years of Fidel Castro and the coming of the internet, and proved life-changing for all those involved: the author, his friends and his enemies.
Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality.
There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes getting rumbled by the police but that’s what made it so compelling: the chance, the risk. Office life this wasn’t. And then there was Jamilia―a refugee from rural poverty, who’d come to the big city as a teenager, and been rescued from the streets by an unnerving family of small-time criminals.
“A little crazy is good,” Jamilia tells Chris― and a little crazy they become, living hard, loving hard and downing a deal of Cuban rum.
But how long can craziness last? And what happens when good fortune turns to bad?
Chris Hilton has visited Cuba over thirty times and lived there twice. The events described in this book took place in the early 2000s, during the final years of Fidel Castro and the coming of the internet, and proved life-changing for all those involved: the author, his friends and his enemies.
Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality.
There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes getting rumbled by the police but that’s what made it so compelling: the chance, the risk. Office life this wasn’t. And then there was Jamilia―a refugee from rural poverty, who’d come to the big city as a teenager, and been rescued from the streets by an unnerving family of small-time criminals.
“A little crazy is good,” Jamilia tells Chris― and a little crazy they become, living hard, loving hard and downing a deal of Cuban rum.
But how long can craziness last? And what happens when good fortune turns to bad?
Endorsements
Matthew Parris
"A fantastic tale, full of pace and steeped in a sense of the place. Hilton really knows Havana - and there is no substitute for that."
Richard Gott
"Hilton's book is a triumph - a delightful guide to the very special atmosphere of Cuba in the last years of the Castro family."
Chris Hilton has visited Cuba over thirty times and lived there twice. The events described in this book took place in the early 2000s, during the final years of Fidel Castro and the coming of the internet, and proved life-changing for all those involved: the author, his friends and his enemies.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 314 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023124
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 23.4mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.90in
08: 12.2oz
Contributor
Full Name: Chris Hilton
First Name: Chris
Last Name: Hilton
Info:
Chris Hilton has visited Cuba over thirty times and lived there twice. The events described in this book took place in the early 2000s, during the final years of Fidel Castro and the coming of the internet, and proved life-changing for all those involved: the author, his friends and his enemies.
Subject
HISTORY / General
HISTORY
HISTORY / World
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
General & world history
Autobiography: general
MEMOIRS
General and world history
Autobiography: general
Memoirs
Havana; South America; Fidel Castro
Reviews
Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality.
There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes getting rumbled by the police but that’s what made it so compelling: the chance, the risk. Office life this wasn’t. And then there was Jamilia―a refugee from rural poverty, who’d come to the big city as a teenager, and been rescued from the streets by an unnerving family of small-time criminals.
“A little crazy is good,” Jamilia tells Chris― and a little crazy they become, living hard, loving hard and downing a deal of Cuban rum.
But how long can craziness last? And what happens when good fortune turns to bad?
"A fantastic tale, full of pace and steeped in a sense of the place. Hilton really knows Havana - and there is no substitute for that."
"Hilton's book is a triumph - a delightful guide to the very special atmosphere of Cuba in the last years of the Castro family."
Chris Hilton has visited Cuba over thirty times and lived there twice. The events described in this book took place in the early 2000s, during the final years of Fidel Castro and the coming of the internet, and proved life-changing for all those involved: the author, his friends and his enemies.
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a bar of soap―whom everyone loves. It’s not fair.
So when the kingdom of Rainland is threatened by a massive and abnormal heatwave, the reason has to be a natural phenomenon, like global warming―right? It couldn’t be the arrival of some magical, mythical, firebreathing monster. Could it?
The king wants Raine to go and investigate but she refuses; let him send his younger son, if he’s so sure there’s a monster: it’s always the youngest who slays the dragon in fairytales. And then something totally unexpected happens to her and everything changes. But how?
Stephen Games is publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles; Princess Brr-Rainy is his first screenplay. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a bar of soap―whom everyone loves. It’s not fair.
So when the kingdom of Rainland is threatened by a massive and abnormal heatwave, the reason has to be a natural phenomenon, like global warming―right? It couldn’t be the arrival of some magical, mythical, firebreathing monster. Could it?
The king wants Raine to go and investigate but she refuses; let him send his younger son, if he’s so sure there’s a monster: it’s always the youngest who slays the dragon in fairytales. And then something totally unexpected happens to her and everything changes. But how?
Endorsements
Stephen Games is publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles; Princess Brr-Rainy is his first screenplay. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 162 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 1915023130
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 12.7mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.50in
08: 6.4oz
Contributor
Full Name: Stephen Games
First Name: Stephen
Last Name: Games
Info:
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Subject
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Myths and Legends fiction
Reviews
Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a bar of soap―whom everyone loves. It’s not fair.
So when the kingdom of Rainland is threatened by a massive and abnormal heatwave, the reason has to be a natural phenomenon, like global warming―right? It couldn’t be the arrival of some magical, mythical, firebreathing monster. Could it?
The king wants Raine to go and investigate but she refuses; let him send his younger son, if he’s so sure there’s a monster: it’s always the youngest who slays the dragon in fairytales. And then something totally unexpected happens to her and everything changes. But how?
Stephen Games is publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles; Princess Brr-Rainy is his first screenplay. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.
David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him—his mother.
He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest – and even then, not all her information was reliable.
Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.
This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.
"David Tereshchuk is one of the great reporters of our era, covering global conflicts and the leaders who have initiated them, from patriots to despots. Now, using the skills he has honed as an investigative journalist, he may have found his most important subject yet: the real story of what happened in his own young life. Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir that is at once moving, shocking and undeniably heroic."
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David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.
A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
Price
£18.95
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NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him—his mother.
He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest – and even then, not all her information was reliable.
Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.
This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.
Endorsements
Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter and co-author, All the President's Men
"David Tereshchuk is one of the great reporters of our era, covering global conflicts and the leaders who have initiated them, from patriots to despots. Now, using the skills he has honed as an investigative journalist, he may have found his most important subject yet: the real story of what happened in his own young life. Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir that is at once moving, shocking and undeniably heroic."
Neal Ascherson, journalist and author
"The compelling, often heart-breaking story of one man’s search for the stories behind the world’s conflicts and for the dark secret of his own birth. He recalls and reflects on many scenes of horror, but the connecting thread is one of haunting suspense. It’s his never-ending effort to find out who made his fifteen-year-old mother pregnant and became his secret father."
Cary Barbor, Host, National Public Radio Book Club (WGCU Radio)
"Tereshchuk’s vivid writing lands you smack in the middle of a fascinating and heart-rending quest."
Lawrence Block, crime novelist
"David Tereshchuk spent the past half-century chasing through every hot spot and hellhole in the world. Now he’s written a memoir and it’s everything I’d hoped it would be—and here’s the surprise: the richest story of many in it is his very own."
Rick Moody, novelist
"Even-handed and reportorial but also deeply moving, complex and very sad. Tereshchuk is committed to the truth even when the truth is challenging. It’s refreshing to read a work so knowing, so honest, so wise."
David W. Dunlap, newspaper historian and author
"A harrowing journey, rich in detail, shaped by transcendent longing. I found myself engrossed by the account of Bloody Sunday."
David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.
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Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 434 pages
Size : 198mm x 129mm (7.8” x 5.1”)
ISBN: 9781915023155
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 198mm
02: 129mm
03: 28mm
01: 7.80in
02: 5.10in
03: 1.10in
08: 1.03lb
Contributor
Full Name: David Tereshchuk
First Name: David
Last Name: Tereshchuk
Info:
David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.
Subject
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Autobiography: general
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Grandparenting
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
Intergenerational relationships
Press & journalism
Autobiography: general
Intergenerational relationships: advice, topics and issues
News media and journalism
New York; Scotland; Mozambique; Ireland; Bloody Sunday; genealogy; personal discovery; alcoholism; mother-son relations; family relations; American TV; News coverage; International Journalism; International Reporting
Reviews
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him—his mother.
He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest – and even then, not all her information was reliable.
Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.
This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.
"David Tereshchuk is one of the great reporters of our era, covering global conflicts and the leaders who have initiated them, from patriots to despots. Now, using the skills he has honed as an investigative journalist, he may have found his most important subject yet: the real story of what happened in his own young life. Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir that is at once moving, shocking and undeniably heroic."
"The compelling, often heart-breaking story of one man’s search for the stories behind the world’s conflicts and for the dark secret of his own birth. He recalls and reflects on many scenes of horror, but the connecting thread is one of haunting suspense. It’s his never-ending effort to find out who made his fifteen-year-old mother pregnant and became his secret father."
"Tereshchuk’s vivid writing lands you smack in the middle of a fascinating and heart-rending quest."
"David Tereshchuk spent the past half-century chasing through every hot spot and hellhole in the world. Now he’s written a memoir and it’s everything I’d hoped it would be—and here’s the surprise: the richest story of many in it is his very own."
"Even-handed and reportorial but also deeply moving, complex and very sad. Tereshchuk is committed to the truth even when the truth is challenging. It’s refreshing to read a work so knowing, so honest, so wise."
"A harrowing journey, rich in detail, shaped by transcendent longing. I found myself engrossed by the account of Bloody Sunday."
David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Endorsements
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 254 pages
Size : 198mm x 129mm (7.8” x 5.1”)
ISBN: 9781915023490
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 198mm
02: 129mm
03: 16.3mm
01: 7.80in
02: 5.10in
03: 0.65in
08: 10.3oz
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Ladner
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Ladner
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
c 1960 to c 1970
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
c 1960 to c 1969
post-war Austria; post-war Vienna; Anschluss; Nazis; American family life; early 1960s; upstate New York; family relations; parenting; adolescence; teenage tensions; marital stress
Reviews
ANOTHER BRILLIANT NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, documentarian and podcaster. A native New Yorker, he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and attempts at conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq for NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA. Since 1993, the BBC has sent him back to America periodically to report on social and cultural changes in his homeland subsequent to his relocation. More recently he has been charting the rise, fall and persistence of Donald Trump in a series of radio documentaries for the BBC; on his FRDH (First Rough Draft of History) podcast (goldfarbpod.com); and at his substack, History of a Calamity (michaelgoldfarb.substack. com). His journalism has won the highest honours on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.” His life as a reporter has led to his writing books. The book on which the present volume is based―Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq―followed his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of Gulf War II, between March and April 2003. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime.
When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf War for the US’s National Public Radio in 2003, Shawkat became his translator, guide and close friend. They planned to stay in touch after Saddam was toppled and Goldfarb returned home.
Their plans did not work out. Shortly after the USA declared victory, Shawkat was shot to death outside his office in Mosul by members of one of the Islamic terror groups he had railed about. His killers have never been caught but Goldfarb swore to memorialise Shawkat’s life in a book, first published in 2005, now republished under a new title. It is a tragic story of an Iraqi idealist and potential role model.
"Goldfarb does us an immense service with his sensitive, multifaceted portrait of a democratic, secular Iraqi patriot...Among the best of the growing number of accounts of the Iraqi war."
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Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, documentarian and podcaster. A native New Yorker, he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and attempts at conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq for NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA. Since 1993, the BBC has sent him back to America periodically to report on social and cultural changes in his homeland subsequent to his relocation. More recently he has been charting the rise, fall and persistence of Donald Trump in a series of radio documentaries for the BBC; on his FRDH (First Rough Draft of History) podcast (goldfarbpod.com); and at his substack, History of a Calamity (michaelgoldfarb.substack. com). His journalism has won the highest honours on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.” His life as a reporter has led to his writing books. The book on which the present volume is based―Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq―followed his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of Gulf War II, between March and April 2003. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime.
When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf War for the US’s National Public Radio in 2003, Shawkat became his translator, guide and close friend. They planned to stay in touch after Saddam was toppled and Goldfarb returned home.
Their plans did not work out. Shortly after the USA declared victory, Shawkat was shot to death outside his office in Mosul by members of one of the Islamic terror groups he had railed about. His killers have never been caught but Goldfarb swore to memorialise Shawkat’s life in a book, first published in 2005, now republished under a new title. It is a tragic story of an Iraqi idealist and potential role model.
Endorsements
“A poignant, sad tale.”
"Goldfarb draws a delicate portrait of his friend and of the growing chaos and disillusionment of Iraqi society."
John Brady
"Goldfarb does us an immense service with his sensitive, multifaceted portrait of a democratic, secular Iraqi patriot...Among the best of the growing number of accounts of the Iraqi war."
Dexter Filkins
"A sad and necessary book that distills all of the country's blighted hopes in one man. Shawkat...was one of the good guys."
Bernadette Murphy
"Whether one supports or opposes the war, Goldfarb's book helps explain, at a person-to-person level, what is transpiring in Iraq and why."
"A moving story...An exciting account of Kurdish survival, a poignant justification for intellectual dissent against totalitarianism, and a depiction of active faith in the universal relevance of democracy."
Greg Mitchell
"In the end, Goldfarb - a supporter of the US war and caustic critic of Saddam - concludes that the death of his friend is symbolic of the American failure in Iraq, from not preventing the looting after the invasion to the continued inability to provide security to the freed people."
Robert Bateman
"Occasionally...there emerge individuals who rise above the surface and remind us all what is right and true, and why humanity will always have hope...Ahmad Shawkat was such a man. A Kurd raised in Mosul, a poet and a humanist, he was a lighthouse of inspiration for those who knew him. Now Ahmad's story may do the same for all of us through the vivid portrait painted with Michael Goldfarb's pen. The tragic story of his life, and murder, is on e that no historian or solder, no statesman or humanitarian, can afford to miss...Read this, and you will understand."
Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, documentarian and podcaster. A native New Yorker, he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and attempts at conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq for NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA. Since 1993, the BBC has sent him back to America periodically to report on social and cultural changes in his homeland subsequent to his relocation. More recently he has been charting the rise, fall and persistence of Donald Trump in a series of radio documentaries for the BBC; on his FRDH (First Rough Draft of History) podcast (goldfarbpod.com); and at his substack, History of a Calamity (michaelgoldfarb.substack. com). His journalism has won the highest honours on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.” His life as a reporter has led to his writing books. The book on which the present volume is based―Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq―followed his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of Gulf War II, between March and April 2003. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 388 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023070
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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02: 127mm
03: 25mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 1.00in
08: 15.5oz
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Goldfarb
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Goldfarb
Info:
Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, documentarian and podcaster. A native New Yorker, he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and attempts at conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq for NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA. Since 1993, the BBC has sent him back to America periodically to report on social and cultural changes in his homeland subsequent to his relocation. More recently he has been charting the rise, fall and persistence of Donald Trump in a series of radio documentaries for the BBC; on his FRDH (First Rough Draft of History) podcast (goldfarbpod.com); and at his substack, History of a Calamity (michaelgoldfarb.substack. com). His journalism has won the highest honours on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.” His life as a reporter has led to his writing books. The book on which the present volume is based―Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq―followed his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of Gulf War II, between March and April 2003. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
Subject
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Biography: historical, political & military
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
HISTORY / Military / General
Military history
Iraq
Biography: historical, political and military
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
Iraq
gulf war; saddam hussein; Iraq
Reviews
Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime.
When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf War for the US’s National Public Radio in 2003, Shawkat became his translator, guide and close friend. They planned to stay in touch after Saddam was toppled and Goldfarb returned home.
Their plans did not work out. Shortly after the USA declared victory, Shawkat was shot to death outside his office in Mosul by members of one of the Islamic terror groups he had railed about. His killers have never been caught but Goldfarb swore to memorialise Shawkat’s life in a book, first published in 2005, now republished under a new title. It is a tragic story of an Iraqi idealist and potential role model.
“A poignant, sad tale.”
"Goldfarb draws a delicate portrait of his friend and of the growing chaos and disillusionment of Iraqi society."
"Goldfarb does us an immense service with his sensitive, multifaceted portrait of a democratic, secular Iraqi patriot...Among the best of the growing number of accounts of the Iraqi war."
John BradySan Francisco Chronicle
"A sad and necessary book that distills all of the country's blighted hopes in one man. Shawkat...was one of the good guys."
Dexter FilkinsNew York Times Book Review
"Whether one supports or opposes the war, Goldfarb's book helps explain, at a person-to-person level, what is transpiring in Iraq and why."
Bernadette MurphyLost Angeles Times
"A moving story...An exciting account of Kurdish survival, a poignant justification for intellectual dissent against totalitarianism, and a depiction of active faith in the universal relevance of democracy."
"In the end, Goldfarb - a supporter of the US war and caustic critic of Saddam - concludes that the death of his friend is symbolic of the American failure in Iraq, from not preventing the looting after the invasion to the continued inability to provide security to the freed people."
Greg MitchellEditor and Publisher
"Occasionally...there emerge individuals who rise above the surface and remind us all what is right and true, and why humanity will always have hope...Ahmad Shawkat was such a man. A Kurd raised in Mosul, a poet and a humanist, he was a lighthouse of inspiration for those who knew him. Now Ahmad's story may do the same for all of us through the vivid portrait painted with Michael Goldfarb's pen. The tragic story of his life, and murder, is on e that no historian or solder, no statesman or humanitarian, can afford to miss...Read this, and you will understand."
Robert Batemanauthor of No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident
Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, documentarian and podcaster. A native New Yorker, he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and attempts at conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq for NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA. Since 1993, the BBC has sent him back to America periodically to report on social and cultural changes in his homeland subsequent to his relocation. More recently he has been charting the rise, fall and persistence of Donald Trump in a series of radio documentaries for the BBC; on his FRDH (First Rough Draft of History) podcast (goldfarbpod.com); and at his substack, History of a Calamity (michaelgoldfarb.substack. com). His journalism has won the highest honours on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.” His life as a reporter has led to his writing books. The book on which the present volume is based―Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq―followed his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of Gulf War II, between March and April 2003. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Endorsements
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 254 pages
Size : 198mm x 129mm (7.8” x 5.1”)
ISBN: 191502305X
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 198mm
02: 129mm
01: 7.80in
02: 5.10in
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Ladner
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Ladner
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
c 1960 to c 1970
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
c 1960 to c 1969
post-war Austria; post-war Vienna; Anschluss; Nazis; American family life; early 1960s; upstate New York; family relations; parenting; adolescence; teenage tensions; marital stress
Reviews
ANOTHER BRILLIANT NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Endorsements
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 254 pages
Size : 198mm x 129mm (7.8” x 5.1”)
ISBN: 9781915023193
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 198mm
02: 129mm
01: 7.80in
02: 5.10in
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Ladner
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Ladner
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
c 1960 to c 1970
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
c 1960 to c 1969
post-war Austria; post-war Vienna; Anschluss; Nazis; American family life; early 1960s; upstate New York; family relations; parenting; adolescence; teenage tensions; marital stress
Reviews
ANOTHER BRILLIANT NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
For Arthur, the journey helps him re-establish his links with the city he was brought up in; for the rest of his family, the new horizons of travel awaken a range of other emotions, all watched over by their wise but needy and uninvited travelling companion, Mrs Woodbine, the family nanny..
In this, his stunning third novel, Michael Ladner draws on his own background as a child of the generation of exiled European academics who found a new home in America.
A perfect book club read.
Michael Ladner was born in Princeton, N.J., where his Viennese father was a medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study, alongside fellow academics Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Having been patted on the head approvingly by the latter, Michael went on to take a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, with further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and School of Visual Arts. He has taught American and European History, Art History, Psychology and English, and has lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2006, he and his wife moved to California. In this, his third novel, he draws on his father's and grandfather's forced exile from Austria, following the Nazi Anschluss.
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS: Where's the Harm? is a Criminology anti-textbook that questions the real sources of a crime - or, more precisely, the real sources of harm. The criminal justice systems that we see in many developed countries are the legacy of centuries of precedent, privilege and prejudice. The result is a corpulent system costing billions of dollars each year and producing, for certain crimes, an accused more than 95 percent likely to walk free. What might we do with a clean slate of thought? What if we rejected the idea of crime and looked instead at the many sources of harm? What if the criminal justice system became a societal justice system where we all understood the probable outcomes and our responsibility for them? This book offers real-world situations, steps away from the idea of punishing antiquated notions of crimes isolated in time and space and challenges the reader to consider the factors contributing to the past, present and future of harm.
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Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Price
£18.95
Description
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Endorsements
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 416 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023223
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Stephen Games
First Name: Stephen
Last Name: Games
Info:
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Anthropology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media
SOCIETY & CULTURE: GENERAL
Social networking
Anthropology
Social media / social networking
Society and culture: general
oral history; social media; sociology; grassroots
Reviews
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
The Sound of the Place: How Britain's Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
Price
£19.95
Description
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
Endorsements
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 448 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023186
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Luke Ottevanger
First Name: Luke
Last Name: Ottevanger
Info:
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Subject
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General
Music: styles & genres
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Techniques
Techniques of music / music tutorials
Music composition
Music: styles and genres
musical composition; music; culture
Reviews
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published in 2018.
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Endorsements
Brother Jacobus of Vienna travels to Northumbria to investigate strange events in this gripping medieval mystery.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 400 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023209
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Dan Jones
First Name: Dan
Last Name: Jones
Info:
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published in 2018.
Subject
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Historical mysteries
FICTION / General
FICTION / Historical / General
HISTORICAL FICTION
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Historical fiction
Reviews
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Brother Jacobus of Vienna travels to Northumbria to investigate strange events in this gripping medieval mystery.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
Endorsements
Lord (Charlie) Falconer
"Truly excellent: A genuinely insightful mixing of the geopolitical and the personal."
The West and the rest through the lens of business, offering a unique combination of the geopolitical and the personal.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 384 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023179
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Ian Ross
First Name: Ian
Last Name: Ross
Info:
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Subject
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General
International business
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & Information Technology
Geopolitics
Information technology industries
International business
Industry and industrial studies
Information technology industries
Geopolitics
Reviews
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
"Truly excellent: A genuinely insightful mixing of the geopolitical and the personal."
The West and the rest through the lens of business, offering a unique combination of the geopolitical and the personal.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to collections of his reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
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"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Price
£12.99
Description
FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Endorsements
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Alexander McCall Smith
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
John Githongo
"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
Sir Malcolm Rifkind
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
Ed Balls
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 126 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781838172008
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
03: 21mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
03: 0.85in
Contributor
Full Name: Michael Holman
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Holman
Info:
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to collections of his reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Subject
HISTORY / General
HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
HISTORY / Africa / General
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
African history
Reportage and collected journalism
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
History
African history
National liberation and independence
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
post-colonialism; Africa; ANC; Mandela; Mugabe; Military history; Military history Africa
Reviews
FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS
Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region's post independence successes and setbacks.
From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed, Holman brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent he grew up in, knows acutely and loves dearly.
Written with the benefit of unique access, Holman's writings still hold out hope for Africa, in spite of decades of disappointment at the structural mismanagement of the nations themselves, the flawed policies of donor countries and other funders, and the hateful legacy of colonialism.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.
"If you want to see what a good man in Africa has done, read this book. It contains profound observations of real and lasting significance on virtually every page …”
"Throughout his career as a journalist and author, Michael has been a rebel with a clear cause. He has a seamless capacity to get under the African skin, and a ruthless insight for sniffing out what's working, even though it may not look it, and what's an utter waste of time, even though no one else will admit. He has brought this insight and unapologetic attitude in his quest for the truth to everything he has ever done, on and for Africa. All of it is informed by a deep sense of empathy for the land of his upbringing, warts and all, and a biting sense of humour …"
“This book should be read by anyone who not only wants to know the history of central and southern Africa but to understand its people, black and white. They are a fine people and in Michael they have had an honest, articulate and worthy champion, as rigorous, objective and professional in this book as he was in his journalism as Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times. He has an energy and an eloquence in recording not just what he knows or has analysed but also what he feels to be the reality of his homeland’s tragic experience both under white, colonial domination and the black-led governments that followed …”
"Africa has no fiercer critic and no greater advocate than Michael Holman. Passionate, sometimes angry but also caring and often hilarious, Michael Holman once again delivers his trademark combination of beautiful prose and compelling story-telling. This book is both a delight and a tragic tale of hopes still unfulfilled …”
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times's Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper's Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson's disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to an earlier collection of reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
Steven Jay Griffel has a distinguished career as an editor, publisher and writer. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in American Literature from Fordham University. His debut novel, Forty Years Later, was released in September 2009 and became an Amazon #1 eBook Bestseller in two categories. An early proponent of the eBook, he quickly gained notoriety as a pioneering digital book author. He has written six novels since then.
In 1985 Americans and Rwandans meet in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The Americans have been sent by The New York Times to cover the ethnic violence; the Rwandans are there to treat the wounded and prepare them for interview. They all need to collaborate, but the more they engage with one another, the more their own conflicts surface, exposing unexpected secrets that become ever harder to conceal. A very deft piece of authorial plotting that defies guesswork— and fate.
Steven Jay Griffel has a distinguished career as an editor, publisher and writer. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in American Literature from Fordham University. His debut novel, Forty Years Later, was released in September 2009 and became an Amazon #1 eBook Bestseller in two categories. An early proponent of the eBook, he quickly gained notoriety as a pioneering digital book author. He has written six novels since then.
In 1985 Americans and Rwandans meet in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The Americans have been sent by The New York Times to cover the ethnic violence; the Rwandans are there to treat the wounded and prepare them for interview. They all need to collaborate, but the more they engage with one another, the more their own conflicts surface, exposing unexpected secrets that become ever harder to conceal. A very deft piece of authorial plotting that defies guesswork— and fate.
Endorsements
Steven Jay Griffel has a distinguished career as an editor, publisher and writer. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in American Literature from Fordham University. His debut novel, Forty Years Later, was released in September 2009 and became an Amazon #1 eBook Bestseller in two categories. An early proponent of the eBook, he quickly gained notoriety as a pioneering digital book author. He has written six novels since then.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 232 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023520
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Steven Jay Griffel
First Name: Steven Jay
Last Name: Griffel
Info:
Steven Jay Griffel has a distinguished career as an editor, publisher and writer. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in American Literature from Fordham University. His debut novel, Forty Years Later, was released in September 2009 and became an Amazon #1 eBook Bestseller in two categories. An early proponent of the eBook, he quickly gained notoriety as a pioneering digital book author. He has written six novels since then.
Subject
FICTION / General
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
FICTION / Legal
FICTION / Political
FICTION / Thrillers / General
Political / legal thriller
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Political / legal thriller
Reviews
In 1985 Americans and Rwandans meet in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The Americans have been sent by The New York Times to cover the ethnic violence; the Rwandans are there to treat the wounded and prepare them for interview. They all need to collaborate, but the more they engage with one another, the more their own conflicts surface, exposing unexpected secrets that become ever harder to conceal. A very deft piece of authorial plotting that defies guesswork— and fate.
Steven Jay Griffel has a distinguished career as an editor, publisher and writer. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in American Literature from Fordham University. His debut novel, Forty Years Later, was released in September 2009 and became an Amazon #1 eBook Bestseller in two categories. An early proponent of the eBook, he quickly gained notoriety as a pioneering digital book author. He has written six novels since then.
In his professional career, Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously a neuroscientist, applied statistician, securities analyst, government economic advisor, whistle blower, and most recently the manager of a technology fund.
How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took him to the much-disputed grounds where the ancient world constructed the philosophical, religious, mathematical and artistic thinking that continues to shape our lives today.
"An ambitious achievement, dense with rich material, about parts of the world we once knew much about, which many readers will now want to discover for themselves on the back of this journey."
In his professional career, Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously a neuroscientist, applied statistician, securities analyst, government economic advisor, whistle blower, and most recently the manager of a technology fund.
How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took him to the much-disputed grounds where the ancient world constructed the philosophical, religious, mathematical and artistic thinking that continues to shape our lives today.
Endorsements
A portrait of a region on the cusp of change and a passionate argument for universal humanism in a time of division
Nicholas Shakespeare
"An ambitious achievement, dense with rich material, about parts of the world we once knew much about, which many readers will now want to discover for themselves on the back of this journey."
In his professional career, Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously a neuroscientist, applied statistician, securities analyst, government economic advisor, whistle blower, and most recently the manager of a technology fund.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 496 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023513
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
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Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Rupert de Borchgrave
First Name: Rupert de
Last Name: Borchgrave
Info:
In his professional career, Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously a neuroscientist, applied statistician, securities analyst, government economic advisor, whistle blower, and most recently the manager of a technology fund.
Subject
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
Business strategy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General
International business
Entrepreneurship
Manufacturing industries
Chemical industries
Business strategy
International business
Chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
Manufacturing industries
Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
Reviews
How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took him to the much-disputed grounds where the ancient world constructed the philosophical, religious, mathematical and artistic thinking that continues to shape our lives today.
A portrait of a region on the cusp of change and a passionate argument for universal humanism in a time of division
"An ambitious achievement, dense with rich material, about parts of the world we once knew much about, which many readers will now want to discover for themselves on the back of this journey."
In his professional career, Rupert de Borchgrave has been variously a neuroscientist, applied statistician, securities analyst, government economic advisor, whistle blower, and most recently the manager of a technology fund.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
Endorsements
Lord (Charlie) Falconer
"Truly excellent: A genuinely insightful mixing of the geopolitical and the personal."
The West and the rest through the lens of business, offering a unique combination of the geopolitical and the personal.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 384 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023537
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Ian Ross
First Name: Ian
Last Name: Ross
Info:
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Subject
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General
International business
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & Information Technology
Geopolitics
Information technology industries
International business
Industry and industrial studies
Information technology industries
Geopolitics
Reviews
We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily sees the world through the lens of business. The West and the Rest examines what he gained that we can learn from.
"Truly excellent: A genuinely insightful mixing of the geopolitical and the personal."
The West and the rest through the lens of business, offering a unique combination of the geopolitical and the personal.
Ian Ross spent forty years working in business overseas, where the need to understand other cultures and politics became indispensable to his role. Educated at Cambridge University and later at the Henley Business School, he has an MA in Economics and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. He and his wife have three children, now adults, and four grandchildren. He still loves travelling.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published in 2018.
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Endorsements
Brother Jacobus of Vienna travels to Northumbria to investigate strange events in this gripping medieval mystery.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 400 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023544
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Dan Jones
First Name: Dan
Last Name: Jones
Info:
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published in 2018.
Subject
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Historical mysteries
FICTION / General
FICTION / Historical / General
HISTORICAL FICTION
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Historical fiction
Reviews
After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars and talk of demons in the woods. Can he solve the mystery and keep his faith and reason intact?
Brother Jacobus of Vienna travels to Northumbria to investigate strange events in this gripping medieval mystery.
Dan Jones hosts Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. He also plays bass for the rock band Sky Empire, signed to Vicisolum Productions. His debut novel, the science-fiction thriller Man O'War, was published by Snowbooks in 2017.
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Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Price
£18.95
Description
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Endorsements
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 416 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023551
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Stephen Games
First Name: Stephen
Last Name: Games
Info:
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Anthropology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media
SOCIETY & CULTURE: GENERAL
Social networking
Anthropology
Social media / social networking
Society and culture: general
oral history; social media; sociology; grassroots
Reviews
Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew's groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
For the first time in print, the reader is able to gain a fascinating insight into what matters to people, what triggers their attitudes and emotions, how they engage with each other, how they support and challenge each other, how they use language, what they find funny and even how they think. The community under observation - Wembley, in north-west London - happens to house England's national football stadium, but is also a very typical suburb, ethnically diverse, with stresses and strengths that this book fully reveals.
Stephen Games is the publisher and editor of EnvelopeBooks and of Booklaunch, the UK's biggest books magazine. He is the author of 15 nonfiction titles. Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former correspondent for the Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design and Architecture, taught as an adjunct professor at American and British universities and has a PhD from Cambridge University.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
The Sound of the Place: How Britain's Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
Price
£19.95
Description
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
Endorsements
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 448 pages
Size : 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023568
Contact: editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
Image
Measure
01: 203mm
02: 127mm
01: 8.00in
02: 5.00in
Contributor
Full Name: Luke Ottevanger
First Name: Luke
Last Name: Ottevanger
Info:
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
Subject
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General
Music: styles & genres
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Techniques
Techniques of music / music tutorials
Music composition
Music: styles and genres
musical composition; music; culture
Reviews
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire.
After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past.
In this thoughtful account of his self-imposed quest, he investigates the myths and legends behind the music of nearly thirty composers, and interlaces descriptions of the genesis and history of almost seventy musical pieces with his own accounts of the places he discovered on his travels-and what he learned about himself.
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
Luke Ottevanger is a music teacher and composer, and lives in North Essex. Born in 1975 he was brought up in London and Leicestershire before going on to study Music at King's College, Cambridge University. Captivated by music since childhood he first began to create pieces of his own at an early age, and composition soon became a vital part of his life.
