Fragrant Harbour

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A few select landmarks in the footage can still be seen today, notably Aberdeen Bay, the Peak Tram and Victoria Harbour. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics.

I think there is quite a bit of Lanchester the journalist (and he is a good one) in Lanchester the novelist, as you observe in your review. It's a carefully planned affair, crammed, as one would expect, with local knowledge, but it differs from its predecessors in being a bit of a blockbuster, spanning three generations and including not only the Japanese invasion but much apparently expert information on corrupt local politics, on how to make your first million, on that sort of thing. It seems Lanchester understands just as much about his middle-aged hero's failed pursuit of pleasure, sexual for the most part but mingled with statistical daydreams (how often do he and his wife do it, compared with the rest of humanity?From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. carried on through "We want you back by half past eleven" (no you don't, you don't want me back at all), and finished with "Good night" (the lie here being: Oh, so you .

The third story follows Matthew Ho, a Chinese-born businessman in his 30s, who divides his time between Hong Kong and Australia, where his young family, including his in-laws, have emigrated. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which is in an archival sleeve and has very light creasing here and there. The scene shifts about: business takes one to Ho Chi Minh City, pleasure to Sydney, family ties to the Kentish pub. Das interessanteste aus meiner Sicht ist die Tatsache, dass die Story nie wirklich spannend ist und trotzdem ist das Buch ein Pageturner.Underwood was born in London, eldest child to Theodore George Black Underwood, a print dealer and numismatist, and his wife Rose Ellen Cornelius who supplemented the family income as a dressmaker. It has a lot to say about the devotion to money and how this effects ethics and behaviour without moralising. It made me really long to go to Hong Kong (or Fragrant Harbour which is its chinese name) and I subsequently did!