Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick and thin, through troubled times and other, a[...]
The chairman of the merchant firm of Blackett and Webb, his family and friends, the military, and all the residents of the Crown Colony of Singapore enter a world of hazard and terror as Japanese forces advance upon and lay siege to the city in 1939. Reprint.[...]