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Live Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of the music scene
converge to save the world. But the TV glitz cannot disguise ugly
truths about Thatcher's Britain. Jon Davies and Suzi Scialfa have
moved on since the inquest into the death of Colin Roach, but
they're about to be drawn back into the struggle ÂÂÂ- Jon by his
restless curiosity and Suzi by the reappearance of DC Patrick
Noble. Noble's other asset, the salaried spycop Parker, is a pawn
in a game he only dimly comprehends. First, he's ordered to
infiltrate the Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham; next will come
Wapping, ground zero of a plot to smash the print unions. But who
is Noble working for, and how far can he be trusted? The Iron Lady
is reforging the nation, and London with it. Right to Buy may
secure her votes, but who really stands to benefit? Corruption is
endemic and the gap between rich and poor grows wider by the day.
Insurrection seems imminent - all that's needed is a spark. REVIEWS
FOR WHITE RIOT, A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'Rpresents
everything that is good and important about the crime fiction
genre' Irish Times 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Gripping' The Times
'Propulsive' Guardian
Big-screen spin-off sequel of the Channel 4 sitcom following the
life of socially awkward suburban teenager Will (Simon Bird) and
his three friends Neil (Blake Harrison), Jay (James Buckley) and
Simon (Joe Thomas). The film follows Will, Neil and Simon as they
travel to Australia to reunite with Jay who is down under for a gap
year. Will this holiday fare better than their last?
'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents
everything that is good and important about the crime fiction
genre' Irish Times 1978: The National Front is gaining ground in
Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups launch the
Carnival Against Racism in Victoria Park. Observing the event is
Detective Constable Patrick Noble, charged with investigating
racist attacks in the area and running Spycops in both far-right
and left wing groups. As Noble's superiors are drawn further into
political meddling, he's inveigled into a plot against the
embattled Labour government as the Winter of Discontent begins to
bite. 1983: Under a disciplinary cloud after a Spycops op ended in
tragedy, Noble is offered a reprieve by an old mentor. He is
dispatched in the early hours to Stoke Newington police station,
where a young black man has died in suspicious circumstances. This
is Thatcher's Britain now, a new world that Noble unwittingly
helped to usher in, where racial tensions are weaponised by those
in power. His investigation will expose the dark heart of a nation
at war with itself. 'Gripping' The Times 'Enthralling' Sunday Times
'A propulsive crime novel' Guardian 'One of our very best
contemporary crime writers' David Peace
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Big-screen spin-off sequel of the Channel 4 sitcom following the
life of socially awkward suburban teenager Will (Simon Bird) and
his three friends Neil (Blake Harrison), Jay (James Buckley) and
Simon (Joe Thomas). The film follows Will, Neil and Simon as they
travel to Australia to reunite with Jay who is down under for a gap
year. Will this holiday fare better than their last?
A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another
that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by
virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the
British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour Declaration.
The Palestinian Arabs never accepted the theft of their land but
have been powerless to resist the weight of support for the Jews
given by the most powerful nations. Despite the foundation of
Israel in 1948, the region has been plagued by wars, injustice, and
a vast refugee 'problem' which has dominated the lives of millions.
Today, the future of the Palestinians is dire and seemingly
inevitable. In this thorough new examination, J. E. Thomas delves
deep into the foundations of the issue, analysing the Zionist claim
to the Holy Land in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
their ruthless campaign to dispossess Palestinian Arabs-a campaign
that continues to this day.
Very little has been written about prison staff. They have been
discussed only in relation to achieving reformative and
rehabilitative goals, and are frequently criticized for opposing
these goals. It is natural that interest should be concentrated on
the prisoner community, but the prison staff must also be examined
if prisons are to be fully understood. This book sets out to
demonstrate that the central figure in any prison system is the
basic grade uniformed officer and that the collective views of
officers have a direct and supreme impact on the working of the
system.Dr Thomas discusses the role of the prison officer in the
English prison system, a highly centralized organization between
the years 1850 to 1970. The definition of new organizational tasks
during this time brought considerable problems of adjustment for
staff which were never properly examined or understood, and which
led to major crises. This story of the English prison service and
the role of the officer in its evolution, is relevant to prison
systems in all advanced societies and raises many controversial
issues of importance to policy-makers in prison services.
This title was first published in 2000: An ethnographic inquiry
into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker
detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It
deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese
refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's first
hand experience of working in refugee camps, this book argues that
the administrators managed to solve the crisis by perpetuating
horrendous human rights violations and subsequent ethnocide of the
asylum seekers trapped in the detention centres.
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'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city'
São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history.
Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a
friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie.
When she goes to meet a contact in central São Paulo, Mario
observes from the street as she walks into a building and doesn't
come out. Inside, he discovers the dead body of a young man he
doesn't recognise, and Ellie's phone lying on the floor. Told
partly from Leme's point of view, partly from Ellie's, Gringa takes
us through five days during the redevelopment of the centre of Sao
Paulo in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. Ellie's disappearance
links characters at every level of the social hierarchy, from the
drug dealers and civil and military police to the political class
she witnesses the feral brutality of urban breakdown. Gringa, with
shades of Don Winslow and James Ellroy, is a portrait of São Paulo
in all its harshness and dysfunction, its corruption and social
divisions, its kaleidoscopic dynamism, its undercurrent of
derangement, and its febrile, sensual instability, executed with a
deep knowledge of the city's a PRAISE FOR JOE THOMAS 'Brilliant'
The Times 'Feverish energy' Guardian 'Wonderfully vivid' Mail on
Sunday 'Sophisticated, dizzying' GQ 'Vivid and visceral' The Times
'Superbly realised vivid and atmospheric' Guardian 'Original' Mail
on Sunday 'A stylish, atmospheric treat an inspired blend of David
Peace and early Pinter' Irish Times 'Sparse, energetic, fragmented
prose' The Spectator 'Vibrant, colourful, and complex' Irish
Independent 'Stylish, sharp-witted, taut. A must for modern noir
fans' NB Magazine 'Definitive confident and energetic' Crime Time
'Brilliant manic energy' Jake Arnott 'Wildly stylish and hugely
entertaining' Lucy Caldwell 'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Herron
'Gripping, fast-paced, darkly atmospheric' Susanna Jones 'Snappy,
thoughtful, moving' John King 'Exciting, fresh, incredibly assured'
Stav Sherez 'Happy days!' Mark Timlin 'Utterly brilliant' Cathi
Unsworth 'Had James Ellroy and David Peace collaborated on a novel
they'd have written something like this' Paul Willets
This title was first published in 2000: An ethnographic inquiry
into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker
detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It
deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese
refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's first
hand experience of working in refugee camps, this book argues that
the administrators managed to solve the crisis by perpetuating
horrendous human rights violations and subsequent ethnocide of the
asylum seekers trapped in the detention centres.
J E Thomas examines the historical roots of Japanese social
structures and preoccupations and he sets these within the broad
chronological framework of Japan's political and military
development. The book can thus serve as an introduction to modern
Japan in a more general sense - but its focus throughout is on the
people themselves. Professor Thomas gives due attention to the
Japanese mainstream; but he also discusses those other sections of
the community which have traditionally been underprivileged or
marginalised - most obviously women, but also minority groups and
outcasts - and the Japanese attitude to foreigners beyond her
shores.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
J E Thomas examines the historical roots of Japanese social
structures and preoccupations and he sets these within the broad
chronological framework of Japan's political and military
development. The book can thus serve as an introduction to modern
Japan in a more general sense - but its focus throughout is on the
people themselves. Professor Thomas gives due attention to the
Japanese mainstream; but he also discusses those other sections of
the community which have traditionally been underprivileged or
marginalised - most obviously women, but also minority groups and
outcasts - and the Japanese attitude to foreigners beyond her
shores.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of
the Victorian Age. Born as the heir to an estate in Devon, he
received an erratic education travelling on the continent.
Eventually he became a clergyman, and when thirty he married an
eighteen year old mill girl, and act which attracted national
interest and comment.Over the next sixty years he became famous as
a pioneer archaeologist, the first collector of West Country folk
music, composer of hymns, a writer on theology-he was extremely
critical of his Church-and one of the most popular novelists of the
day. As well as this staggering output, he ran his large estate
with compassion, and as if to cement his Victorian credentials he
and Grace had fifteen children. He died in 1924 aged eighty nine.
This biography analyses in detail his extraordinary life and work,
especially his literary output, and draws a picture of a great
character. It is high time we were reminded of a major figure in
Victorian England.
"One of our very best contemporary crime writers" David Peace 1978:
The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their
influence, anti-fascist groups launch the Carnival Against Racism
in Victoria Park. Observing the event is Detective Constable
Patrick Noble, charged with investigating racist attacks in the
area and running Spycops in both far-right and left wing groups. As
Noble's superiors are drawn further into political meddling, he's
inveigled into a plot against the embattled Labour government.
1983: Under a disciplinary cloud after a Spycops op ended in
tragedy, Noble is offered a reprieve by an old mentor. He is
dispatched in the early hours to Stoke Newington police station,
where a young black man has died in suspicious circumstances. This
is Thatcher's Britain now, a new world that Noble unwittingly
helped to usher in, where racial tensions are weaponised by those
in power. Supercharged by the music and counterculture of the era,
White Riot weaves fiction, fact and personal experience to record
the radical tale of London's most thrilling borough. Politics,
music, police corruption, institutional racism and the power of
protest all take centre stage in a novel that traces the roots of
our current political moment.
The partnership between India and Taiwan is situated in a
virtual maze of complex political factors. Given the core issue of
contestation of Taiwan s political status in world affairs and
India s adherence to the One China policy, the relationship remains
a fragile one for both partners. In recent years, Taiwan has signed
the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)
with Mainland China. Increasingly, its political and economic
future (including its relationships with countries such as India)
will continue to be linked with Mainland China.
This book closely examines the partnership between India and Taiwan
within the new post-ECFA setting that Taiwan finds itself in. It
explicates the shifts and continuities in Taiwan s economic
relationship with Mainland China, discusses how partnership with
India could become a crucial pivot of Taiwan s foreign policy in
the coming years, and argues why this partnership is vital for the
take-off of India s own economic growth targets. The book
identifies specific avenues for India and Taiwan to benefit from
the economic growth success stories that they have come to
represent over these years and outlines policy realignments that
could allow India and Taiwan to best realize their mutuality of
interests.
'BRAZILIAN PSYCHO is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of
political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with
AMERICAN TABLOID, THE POWER OF THE DOG and A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN
KILLINGS, and confirms Joe Thomas as one of our very best
contemporary crime writers.' David Peace 'Complex and compelling,
and shot through with moments of horror and beauty, BRAZILIAN
PSYCHO is a magnificent achievement.' The Times Crime Club 'Fans of
Don Winslow and James Ellroy's epic forays into the societal
effects of systematic dysfunction and corruption will want to check
this out' Publishers Weekly Brazil, 1 January 2003: President Luis
Inacio 'Lula' da Silva begins fifteen years of left-wing
government. 1 January 2019: Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated, a
president of the populist right. How did it come to this? A
blockbusting novel of our times, Brazilian Psycho introduces and
completes Joe Thomas's acclaimed Sao Paulo quartet. Over sixteen
years, a diverse cast of characters live through the unfolding
social and political drama, setting in motion a whirlwind of plots
and counterplots: the murder of a British school headmaster and the
consequent cover-up; the chaos and score-settling of the PCC drug
gang rebellion over the Mothers' Day weekend of 2006; a copycat
serial killer; the secret international funding of nationwide
anti-government protests; the bribes, kickbacks and shakedowns of
the Mensalao and Lava Jato political corruption scandals, the
biggest in Brazilian history Brazilian Psycho weaves social crime
fiction, historical fact, and personal experience to record the
radical tale of one of the world's most fascinating, glamorous,
corrupt, violent, and thrilling cities. PRAISE FOR JOE THOMAS
'Brilliant' The Times 'Feverish energy' Guardian 'Wonderfully
vivid' Mail on Sunday 'Sophisticated, dizzying' GQ 'Vivid and
visceral' The Times 'Superbly realised vivid and atmospheric'
Guardian 'Original' Mail on Sunday 'A stylish, atmospheric treat an
inspired blend of David Peace and early Pinter' Irish Times
'Sparse, energetic, fragmented prose' The Spectator 'Vibrant,
colourful, and complex' Irish Independent 'Stylish, sharp-witted,
taut. A must for modern noir fans' NB Magazine 'Definitive
confident and energetic' Crime Time 'Brilliant manic energy' Jake
Arnott 'Wildly stylish and hugely entertaining' Lucy Caldwell
'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Herron 'Gripping, fast-paced, darkly
atmospheric' Susanna Jones 'Snappy, thoughtful, moving' John King
'Exciting, fresh, incredibly assured' Stav Sherez 'Happy days!'
Mark Timlin 'Utterly brilliant' Cathi Unsworth 'Had James Ellroy
and David Peace collaborated on a novel they'd have written
something like this' Paul Willets
The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of
Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its
philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary
literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical
Text, 1. Burnet's Platonis Opera (Oxford Clarendon Press 1900) Vol.
III. In conjunction with this I have made extensive use of R.S.
Bluck's Plato's Meno (Cam bridge University Press, 1964). At
critical places in the dialogue I have also consulted A. Croiset's
Gorgias, Menon (Bude text). My debt o two other sources will be
clearly in evidence. They are E.S. Thompson's Plato's Meno (London,
MacMillan 1901), and St. George Stock's The Meno of Plato (Oxford
Clarendon Press, 1894). One of the greatest difficulties facing a
translator is to achieve a balance between accuracy and elegance.
Literal translations are more likely to be accurate, but, alas,
they also tend to be duller. Free translations run into the
opposite danger of paying for elegance and liveliness with the coin
of inaccuracy. Another hurdle, for a translator of a Platonic
dialogue, is posed by the challenge to maintain the conversational
pattern and fast moving character of the discussion. This is easier
where the exchang s are short, but much more difficult where
Socrates gets somewhat long-winded."
'Brilliant' The Times Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the
Sao Paulo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off
early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis -
Paradise City. It's a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down
at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in
a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place
where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and flip
over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed,
Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo's death wasn't an accident,
he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. And if
they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too . . . Leme
finds himself immersed further and further in the dark underbelly
of Brazilian society, as corruption seeps from the highest to the
lowest echelons, and the devastating truth about Renata begins to
emerge. PRAISE FOR JOE THOMAS 'Brilliant' The Times 'Feverish
energy' Guardian 'Wonderfully vivid' Mail on Sunday 'Sophisticated,
dizzying' GQ 'Vivid and visceral' The Times 'Superbly realised
vivid and atmospheric' Guardian 'Original' Mail on Sunday 'A
stylish, atmospheric treat an inspired blend of David Peace and
early Pinter' Irish Times 'Sparse, energetic, fragmented prose' The
Spectator 'Vibrant, colourful, and complex' Irish Independent
'Stylish, sharp-witted, taut. A must for modern noir fans' NB
Magazine 'Definitive confident and energetic' Crime Time 'Brilliant
manic energy' Jake Arnott 'Wildly stylish and hugely entertaining'
Lucy Caldwell 'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Herron 'Gripping,
fast-paced, darkly atmospheric' Susanna Jones 'Snappy, thoughtful,
moving' John King 'Exciting, fresh, incredibly assured' Stav Sherez
'Happy days!' Mark Timlin 'Utterly brilliant' Cathi Unsworth 'Had
James Ellroy and David Peace collaborated on a novel they'd have
written something like this' Paul Willets
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Guardian Best Book of 2020 Irish Times Best Crime Fiction of 2020
Times Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Month The
Spectator Crime Fiction of the Month Crime Time Book of the Year
2020 'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Heron The first time I met Harold
Challenor, he frisked me for weapons - I was ten years old. Bent is
the explosive story of the rise and fall of SAS commando, and
notorious Detective Sergeant, Harold 'Tanky' Challenor. During the
Second World War, Challenor was parachuted behind enemy lines into
Italy and France, performing remarkable feats of bravery. In the
grimy underbelly of 1960s Soho, he was a ferocious and
controversial presence, mediating between factions of club owners
and racketeers, and cultivating informers. But just how far will he
go to break the protection gang that has a grip on his manor? It
can be a fine line that divides hero and villain. PRAISE FOR JOE
THOMAS 'Brilliant' The Times 'Feverish energy' Guardian
'Wonderfully vivid' Mail on Sunday 'Sophisticated, dizzying' GQ
'Vivid and visceral' The Times 'Superbly realised vivid and
atmospheric' Guardian 'Original' Mail on Sunday 'A stylish,
atmospheric treat an inspired blend of David Peace and early
Pinter' Irish Times 'Sparse, energetic, fragmented prose' The
Spectator 'Vibrant, colourful, and complex' Irish Independent
'Stylish, sharp-witted, taut. A must for modern noir fans' NB
Magazine 'Definitive confident and energetic' Crime Time 'Brilliant
manic energy' Jake Arnott 'Wildly stylish and hugely entertaining'
Lucy Caldwell 'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Herron 'Gripping,
fast-paced, darkly atmospheric' Susanna Jones 'Snappy, thoughtful,
moving' John King 'Exciting, fresh, incredibly assured' Stav Sherez
'Happy days!' Mark Timlin 'Utterly brilliant' Cathi Unsworth 'Had
James Ellroy and David Peace collaborated on a novel they'd have
written something like this' Paul Willets
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