Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award
that young man has risen in the ranks to become a trusted advisor to Israel's Prime Minister and throughout his career
as has been the case in the UK for over 200 years
Aged 16 he watched with horror as the historic High Street of Southampton burnt to the ground in a firestorm caused by a heavy German bombing raid on the night of 30 November 1940
Jamiew Ford: Love and Other Consolation Prizes [2018] paperback Condition:New Translated by Margaret Jull Costa1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude. On the eve of the new World's Fair in 1962, Ernest looks back on the past, the memories he made with his beloved wife while his daughter, a reporter,