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Nothing Personal
Brilliant civil engineer, Rainer Kelf, has to fight for the survival of the company he has taken a lifetime to create. Facing him is the self-made tycoon, the massively wealthy Sir Henry Lloyd Morgan, who cajoles Kelf into a disastrous merger between their two companies, and then out of nothing but greed, sets out to steal Kelf's life work with every dirty trick he can think of. Complicating things for Kelf is the capriciousness of the City of London, with their wafer-thin loyalties for the builder. Kelf fails to see beyond their immaculate suits, impeccable accents and membership of the so-called Old Boys' Club. Kelf cannot accept that he is seen as an outsider and this naivet� almost cos...
Intention to Deceive
"One good painting can equal the gross national product of a small country. But a bad one can cost a good man his life," Harry said. It is the worst day of Harry Rand's life. He just lost his high-flying job with a London investment bank - although he is as smart as hell, he just didn't fit in - and now he's found his mother and stepfather murdered, and three priceless paintings missing. Going undercover as a dapper art dealer and collector, he pursues the missing paintings from a desolate Scottish island to the fine art auction rooms and the smart galleries of London. In the race to track down the missing paintings, Harry recruits a motley band of helpers, including one of the world's great...
Emperor Cody Maguire
There is no more intrigue-ridden, back-biting, bitterly contested business than fashion.Behind the glamour, quality and desirability festers a world with just one aim: power. Where success is measured by one yardstick: money. A world controlled by labels, where egos regularly spin out of control, and snobbery is stitched into every seam.Into this snake-pit comes Cody Maguire, a boy who fought his way out of the poverty-stricken East End of London to create what some said could be one of the great fashion houses of the world. But fashion is a fickle business. One moment he is the most sought after fashion designer in London, with every society hostess demanding his presence at their parties, ...
Writing the City
Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city.
Writing the City
Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city.
Vortex Rising
VORTEX RISING This third part of the trilogy again features Mark Watson, who appeared in AMBITIONS END and WINNERS NEVER LOSE, but he is now considerably older than in the first two books; he has been knighted for services to industry; is Chairman of several companues as well as a non-executive director of two Charities. He continues to wheel and deal in the cut throat world of big business, something at which he excels. However, secretly recruited for a top secret project to run alongside his demanding business activities, now for the first time in his career he becomes enmeshed in politics at the highest level as the worlds of Monarchy and Government intermingle and clash. Simultaneously managing the project along with his demanding business roles which involve takeovers and sell-offs, negotiations with Chinese bankers and Russian businessmen the action takes him to America and Russia. At the same time while continuing to cheat on his wife and a succession of girlfriends, Mark needs to draw on all his acumen, tough approach to life and innate desire to succeed as the story builds to its climax.
Writing the City
Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city.
Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film
The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture.
Revised Lives
Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. This study contributes to the understanding of selfhood in nineteenth-century American culture, the development of autobiography as a genre, and the dynamics of literary reception.
The Dangerous Potential of Reading
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
