Вручение 23 мая 2012 г.

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: город Лондон Дата проведения: 23 мая 2012 г.

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Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
Тоби Харнден 0.0
This is the story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. The book draws on interviews, military documents and other sources which raise questions from beyond the grave that will unnerve politicians and generals alike.
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Саймон Купер
Саймон Купер / Simon Kuper
12 книг
1 в избранном
The Opium War
Джулия Ловелл 0.0
In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism.
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The Beautiful and the Damned
Siddhartha Deb 0.0
India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path.
In his dazzling new book Siddhartha Deb leads us into the new India through the lives of an unforgettable group of Indians: a Gatsby-like mogul in Delhi whose hobby is producing big-budget gangster films that no one sees; a wiry, dusty farmer whose village is plagued by suicides and was the epicentre of a riot; and a sad-eyed waitress named Esther who has set aside her dual degrees in biochemistry and botany to serve Coca-Cola to arms dealers at an upscale hotel called Shangri La.
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Ричард Ллойд Пэрри 3.8
An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, Australian dowsers and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. As the case unfolded, it drew the attention of prime ministers and sado-masochists, ambassadors and con-men, and reporters from across the world. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult, or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work, as a 'hostess' in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has followed the case since Lucie's disappearance. Over the course of a decade, he has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story, fought off a legal attack in the Japanese courts, and worked undercover as a barman in a Roppongi strip club. He has talked exhaustively to Lucie's friends and family and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. And he has delved into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime - Joji Obara, described by the judge as 'unprecedented and extremely evil'. With the finesse of a novelist, he reveals the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate. 'People Who Eat Darkness' is, by turns, a non-fiction thriller, a courtroom drama and the biography of both a victim and a killer. It is the story of a young woman who fell prey to unspeakable evil, and of a loving family torn apart by grief. And it is a fascinating insight into one of the world's most baffling and mysterious societies, a light shone into dark corners of Japan that the rest of the world has never glimpsed before.
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Hood Rat
Гэвин Найт 0.0
In Moss Side, Manchester, Anders Svensson is on the trail of drug baron Merlin and his lieutenant Flow, a man so dangerous his type is said to appear only once in a decade. Svensson himself is a renegade detective with a network of informants second to none - mainly the girlfriends of gang members, who come to him for protection. Among the housing estates of Glasgow, the city with the highest murder rate in Europe, Karen McCluskey is on a one-woman mission to reform the force. And in Hackney, 19-year-old Pilgrim has made himself one of the most feared gang-members in East London, wanted for attempted murder and seemingly condemned to a life of crime. In 'Hood Rat' these narratives interlock in a shocking exposé of Britain's underworld that ranks with Roberto Saviano's bestselling 'Gomorrah'
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DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia
Миша Гленни 3.0
In this fascinating and compelling booka??a must-read for anyone who owns a computera??Misha Glenny exposes our governments’ multi-billion-dollar war against an ever-morphing, super smart new breed of criminal: the hacker. A The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. We bank online, shop online, date, learn, work, and live online, but have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us from the deadly “new mafia” of cybercriminals? To answer this question, Glenny offers a vivid examination of the rise of the criminal hacking website DarkMarket and its ultimate fall. Along the way, he presents alarming and illuminating stories about both the shadowy individuals behind its scenes and the organizations tasked with bringing them to justice.
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Амелия Джентльмен
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Амелия Джентльмен / Amelia Gentleman
3 книги
2 в избранном

Журналистке вручили премию за серию статей, в которой, по выражению жюри, она осветила самые сложные проблемы британского общества. В своих статьях Джентльмен писала о людях, обманом получающих государственные льготы или живущих только за счет льгот и пособий, исправительных учреждениях для малолетних и социальных работниках, заботящихся о пожилых. Амелию Джентльмен выдвинули на премию Оруэлла уже третий год подряд.

Эдвард Докс
Эдвард Докс / Edward Docx
2 книги
3 в избранном
Дэвид Джеймс Смит
Дэвид Джеймс Смит / David James Smith
4 книги
1 в избранном