The Simons of Manchester

The Simons of ManchesterThis book illuminates the history of one of Manchesters most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchesters civic culture, and in shaping local government, housing and education.

Using memoir

By focusing on this body of work

This book contains the first English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: Snow by Stanislaw Przybyszewski

having apparently committed suicide

Claire Denis

What interest do the European media display in their royal families

by leading sports historian Gary James

this book argues for the importance of crime fiction

A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present

contestation and lived experience and shows that migration is a key terrain on which colonial power relations are reproduced

family secrets

amorality and lust for power underpinning them