Matthew Kneale0.0 Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo. Working illegally in a ramshackle language school, his passport lost, he is hustled towards marriage with Keiko, his Japanese girlfriend. In the gloom of the rainy season, Daniel's life takes on a nightmarish quality—his devious boss, Mrs. Chiba, refuses to pay him any money, a stranger accosts him with a mysterious special offer, a foul Australian takes him to an unspeakable whores' meeting place, and Samuel Echtbein, an American, is a constant thorn in Daniel's side. But most threatening of all are the Haradas, Keiko's family, who take control of his life. This title was originally published as Whore Banquets.
Carol Ann Duffy0.0 The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she writes, Robert Nye remarked, as if she were the first to do so'. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
Джимми Бернс0.0 Jimmy Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In this work, he gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion, exposing not only the hidden motives and nature of Argentina's military regime, but also the pitifully inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy and intelligence. Burns exposes the duplicity of other Western nations and the international banking communityy, also giving a first-hand account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to democracy under Raul Alfonsin.
