Best Selling Books by David Storey

Victor Tolson, a demoniac creature of massive proportions -- a man who destroys things out of his affections for them -- stalks Leonard Radcliffe, desiring to dominate and possess his remarkable, strangely innocent, nature. Radcliffe, the last product of a once-aristocratic family, recognises in Tolson everything that he himself is not, a man of irresistible strength, effectiveness, beauty and evil. Exploring a relationship of exceptional intensity between two men, each of whom, incomplete in himself, finds in the other a complementary and compulsive need, Radcliffe gradually reaches a pitch which can only end in cataclysmic confrontation.

Given its popularity, international football might be viewed as a prism through which the imagined community of the nation becomes closer to a manifest reality with matches providing examples of that community collectively rejoicing or crying. The sport potentially sheds insights on the complexities of ethnic and national identity, as it is a medium through which allegiances are (re)produced and expressed. Alongside the internationalisation of club teams, international representative teams also appear to be becoming more trans-national with players born outside that country, but with family connections to it, playing in the national colours. Increasing flexibility of regulations governing international representation means that countries can potentially select from a considerably broader pool of talent, drawing on players with ethnic or cultural connections to the country. For example, for a number of decades now, the Republic of Ireland team has included sizeable numbers of non-Irish born players, sons and grandsons of Irish emigrants. Similar tendencies are clear in the selection of English-born players of West Indian origin for football teams representing Caribbean countries. Colonial connections and related migration flows explain France’s selection of players born in places such as Algeria or Morocco but brought up in France. The successful French teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s drew heavily on players from a multiplicity of ethnic and geographic origins. Conversely, many African countries select French-born players of African origin thereby reclaiming some of the sons of their extensive diasporas and a sizeable number of players born in Europe have competed in the Africa Cup of Nations in recent years. In this way, historical colonial relationships and associated migration flows provide the backdrop to the more eclectic nature of national representative teams. Elsewhere this amalgamation of both civic and ethnic senses of national identity, has allowed teams like Turkey and Croatia to tap into their extensive emigrant pool. This book focuses on one dimension of the intricate connections between football, place and politics. It investigates the switching of national sporting allegiance by some footballers from their country of birth to country of residency or family origins, examines the reasons behind the recent growth of the phenomenon, and explores reactions to this.

Total Value Development provides a framework to help businesses innovate and derive greater value from the services they offer. The secret is to devise an innovative model built on total value creation, identified as the total value development (TVD) model.The TVD model has broad applicability for any large organization. Here, case studies are presented showing the effectiveness of the TVD model in its practical application within companies. Statistical evidence is used to recommend improvements to performance outcomes, such as time compression, cost reduction, quality and innovation. Studies of over 100 service enterprises in the United States and the United Kingdom provide compelling evidence for benefits from business model innovation. Additional material in the form of guidance forms give readers the tools needed for the implementation and recording of successful in-project value development.Providing both a practical framework and real-life examples of adding value to current business practices, this book is essential reading for executives, managers and researchers in the field of business and innovation.

The Restoration of Arnold Middleton is a domestic tragicomedy of a thirty-something married couple and their unusual living arrangements. Arnie, a history teacher, is a delusional attention seeker with a penchant for cluttering his home with historical artefacts, much to the dismay of his wife, Joan, but much to the pleasure of his giddy mother-in law. As they await the long-anticipated visit of Arnie''s parents in a flurry of cleaning and tidying, the trio are visited by Arnie''s school colleagues, one of whom is conducting a suspect liaison with a pupil. The play follows Arnie''s lies and fantasies, indulged by his fellow teaching staff, to his ultimate breakdown, and to the breakdown of the curious domestic set-up that Arnie, Joan and her mother have put up with for years.

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The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being ''sold'' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London. He describes shocking scenes in the seventeen deprived East End schools in which he taught. He documents the childhood death of his eldest brother, addressing much of the memoir to him and exploring how this relates to his own sometimes paralysing depression, which haunted most of his life. And yet, a prolific and celebrated writer, he recalls heady spells in New York, close relationships in the theatre with Joycelyn Herbert, Ralph Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, early success with This Sporting Life, and winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville.

This book describes how public policy and the "enterprise industry" have effectively failed to generate an enterprise culture in disadvantaged areas, combining theoretical understandings with solidly derived empirical data.

Article on the danger of inferring that the results obtained from a study on small scale industry employment creation potential in the USA are applicable to UK industrial policy - reviews conclusions of "The Job Generation Process" by D.L. Birch, finding that 66 per cent of new jobs generated in the USA manufacturing sector are in a size of enterprise of less than 20 employees; makes comparisons using statistical tables on new and small enterprise in the UK county of Cleveland, Midlands, Glasgow and Birmingham.

Involuntary self-murder is a symptom of what Matthew Maddox, emeritus professor of the Drayburgh School of Fine Art, considers to be a cultural as well as a social malaise - his millennial summing-up of the century he has lived through.

The Phoenix Theatre is going dark-indeed, being demolished for more profitable purposes. Its artistic director is determined to stay for the bitter end, and as he holes up for the last twenty-four hours, all the ghosts of his murky career parade before him. Not only the theatre, but he too, is due for demolition. By one of our major writers, this play is about the survival of theatre: physically, emotionally and culturally.