Mittal's prospective deal to acquire Sidex was already moving along nicely when he met Blair at Levy's reception in the wake of Labour's recent election triumph. For this, Mittal had the government to thank. He had British government ...
In late June 2002 , New York congressman Michael McNulty , recalling the American soldier and turncoat who had once fled Connecticut for Bermuda , exclaimed , “ I have no sympathy for the argument that these Benedict Arnold companies ...
In the face of all this violence a few dedicated people—people with ideals, people who dare to fall in love—find a way to avoid disaster. But no one in Santa Marta will ever be the same once this story reaches its shattering climax.
Includes three novels: "Offshore," about a group of misfits in 1960s London, "Human Voices," a look at the BBC during World War II, and "The Beginning of Spring," about a printer living in Moscow before the Revolution.
The book traces the complex transformation of the worlds of global sourcing, from its origins in the new international division of labour in the 1970s, through the rapid growth of back-office economies in India and the Philippines since the ...
It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English émigrés in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best 'Russian' novel of the twentieth century.
A corporate raider will stop at nothing to exact revenge and destroy a Houston oil family dynasty. Don Corace'ss first thriller is a page-turner with forbidden romance, corporate greed, and murder -- a book you won'st be able to put down.
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics lives in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.
This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan ...
Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and ...
One of the stories, 'Postcard from Skokholm', is written by Lynne Chitty, winner of Pan Macmillan's Bello imprint's short story competition, who introduces Ann Cleeves' beloved characters George and Molly Palmer-Jones to new readers.