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Silent Movements brings all Simon Mundy's experience in politics
and the music business together. Set in 1980 at the end of the Cold
War, it tells the story of a Soviet violinist being helped by a
young British cellist to defect. Along the way Mundy accurately
depicts the challenges and excitement of concert performance. As
Julian Lloyd Webber says, 'Simon Mundy really knows the point where
music, politics and history collide. He also understands the
processes of a performer's life.'
‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise
they’ll kill you.’ One of the most prolific and respected
playwrights of the twentieth century, Bernard Shaw’s legacy shows
no signs of waning, and his beautifully written plays, laced with
wry wit and invective alike, have seen countless performances over
the years, their finest lines paraded in literary conversation and
review. Meticulously selected by Simon Mundy, the Wit and Acid
series collects the sharpest lines from the Shaw’s oeuvre in
small neat volumes, allowing the reader to sample some of the very
best barbs and one-liners the twentieth century has to offer, and
this, the second volume, covers lines from the great writer’s
works published after 1911. With an introduction by Simon Mundy, a
poet, novelist, trenchant music critic and occasional playwright.
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Saint Joan (Paperback)
George Bernard Shaw; Introduction by Simon Mundy
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The life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of
legend, and her cruel death (burnt at the stake aged just nineteen)
led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an impressive
legacy. Following her canonisation in 1920, and against a history
of overly romanticised retellings of the story, Bernard Shaw put
pen to paper to give a more accurate account, without resorting to
demonising her persecutors; as he writes in his preface, 'there are
no villains in the piece'. It was an immediate success, securing
him the Nobel Prize for Literature, although critics were initially
divided by this frank approach - T.S. Eliot was outraged, saying,
'instead of the saint or the strumpet of the legends... he has
turned her into a great middle-class reformer.' Nonetheless - or
perhaps even because of this controversy - Saint Joan is considered
one of Bernard Shaw's finest and most important plays. This edition
has an introduction by Simon Mundy, who has spent several years as
Vice-President of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee,
and extensive explanatory notes.
As featured on CNN’s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4’s
Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times’ best
books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six
countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the
climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world – shattering
communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of
cutting-edge innovation. Telling unforgettable human stories,
meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political
leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic
adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the
forces that will define our future. More praise ‘Urgent reading
… A truly global journey’ SOPHY ROBERTS ‘Vivid and
informed’ ADAM NICOLSON ‘I took a great sense of hope’
RICHARD POWERS ‘Reads like a thriller’ MARK LYNAS ‘An
inspiring piece of work’ MICHAEL E. MANN ‘Utterly unlike any
book yet written in this field’ ANAND MAHINDRA ‘Gripping … A
must-read for every concerned global citizen’ NANDAN NILEKANI
By Fax to Alice Springs was Simon Mundy's second book of poems,
including work from 1987 to 1995. As the title implies, the poems
were written all over the world - North Carolina to Italy, Moravia
to Australia - as well as in Mundy's home territory on the borders
of Wales. They reflect his intense sense of the spirit of place as
well as his wry approach to politics and bittersweet relationship
with women.
A cafe in Brussels that puts people at their ease - artists with
European politicians, their assistants and tousled intellectuals
with bar staff, twenty-somethings in need of a job with
thirty-somethings who have one. Flagey is a comedy of manners that
smiles refreshingly at Europe's capital, relaxed and true to its
context. Love and politics raise their heads and generally get
smacked for the trouble. The Place Flagey is really there. So
perhaps are some of those you will meet inside.
As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start
the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of
2021 In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries,
Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate
crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping
the modern world - shattering communities, shaking up global
business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge
innovation. HOW is China's green energy push driving a hazardous
mining rush in Congo? WHY is a maverick scientist building a home
for engineered mammoths in northeast Siberia? CAN an Israeli fake
meat startup make a fortune while helping to save the Amazon? WILL
Greenland's melting sea ice put its people at the centre of a
global power struggle? WHO are the entrepreneurs chasing
breakthroughs in fusion power, electric cars, and technology to
suck carbon from the atmosphere? As the impacts of climate change
cascade across the planet and the global economy, who is battling
to survive the worst impacts - and who is chasing the most
lucrative rewards? Telling unforgettable human stories from six
continents, this is an account of disaster, of promise, of frantic
adaptation and relentless innovation, of hope, of survival, and of
the forces that will define our future. More praise 'Vivid and
informed' ADAM NICOLSON 'I took a great sense of hope' RICHARD
POWERS 'Reads like a thriller' MARK LYNAS 'An inspiring piece of
work that deserves a broad audience' MICHAEL E. MANN 'Utterly
unlike any book yet written in this field' ANAND MAHINDRA 'Gripping
... A must-read for every concerned global citizen' NANDAN NILEKANI
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