Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for  Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter  how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else.  His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended  match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League  of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe,  the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing  and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of  the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to  come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city  under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy”  that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.

Singapore Grip

J.G. Farrell

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Girl in the Head

<p>Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end.</p>
<p>A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.</p>

The Singapore Grip (Flamingo)

Contemporary

Flamingo

Set against the backdrop of growing tensions in Ireland in 1919, Troubles, written in 1970, is the first novel in J.G. Farrell's "Empire Trilogy". "Troubles" is set on the east coast of Ireland, largely in the Hotel Majestic, a formerly grand building that has seen better days and now generally houses more cats than guests. The listener is taken back to July 1919, when the 'Major' is visiting the Majestic to reunite with his fiancee Angela, the Protestant proprietor Edward Spencer's daughter. The lovers met in Brighton during the War and have since only corresponded long-distance. The welcome he receives is not quite what he expected. He quickly becomes sucked into the political and sociological ethos of the hotel and its inhabitants, and the story builds tantalisingly until its inevitable dramatic conclusion. A touching, often very funny and yet ultimately rather sad story, which will capture the listener's heart and excite their interest with its themes of Irish politics and love, played out in an unlikely and fragile sanctuary. The reader Sean Barrett is an Irish-born actor who has enjoyed success in the theatre, on television and in film.

Troubles

The Siege of Krishnapur

Troubles is the riveting story of Major Brendan Archer, who travels to Ireland to meet his fiancée, Angela, in 1919. They have met only once before, a few years earlier in Brighton, and have conducted a long-distance relationship ever since. Within a few days of his arrival in Kilnalough, however, Angela dies of Leukemia. But the old, dilapidated hotel her father owns—plus a local woman, Sarah—cast a certain spell over Major Archer. He decides to stay on at The Majestic Hotel, surrounded by old ladies, various animals, and the eccentric and fervently Protestant owner of the hotel, Edward Spencer. Meanwhile, another Ireland is rising up outside—"troubles" of both the political and social kind are about to rear their heads.

Troubles,

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

1910-1921; English fiction; Fiction; Historical; Historical fiction; Ireland; Literary

Literary

Alfred.A. Knopf

Siege of Krishnapur

Genre Fiction

Weidenfeld & Nicolson History

Major Brendan Archer summers at the Majestic, a resort hotel on the Irish coast and finds himself among tragic characters, prostrated by personal conflicts

Carroll & Graf Pub.

British & Irish

Phoenix

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Singapore Grip

Girl in the Head

The Singapore Grip (Flamingo)

Troubles

The Siege of Krishnapur

Troubles,

Troubles

Siege of Krishnapur

Troubles

The Siege of Krishnapur