United With Dad is an emotional tale of football fandom and fatherhood, detailing the agonising final two years of a man' s life while drawing on his love for and memories of Manchester United.David Lloyd passed away from metastatic prostate cancer in a nursing home in November 2019. During his heartbreaking decline, he also lived with dementia. His affection for United was ignited by early visits to Old Trafford as a boy in the 1950s. Through the anguish ...

United With Dad is an emotional tale of football fandom and fatherhood, detailing the agonising final two years of a man’s life while drawing on his love for and memories of Manchester United.David Lloyd passed away from metastatic prostate cancer in a nursing home in November 2019. During his heartbreaking decline, he also lived with dementia. His affection for United was ignited by early visits to Old Trafford as a boy in the 1950s. Through the anguish of his final months, his pa...

"Bentornato, sir""Non mi sono mai mosso da qui, Lloyd...""Eppure è stato molto distante, sir""E dove sarei finito?""Nella disperazione, sir. Un luogo che si raggiunge rimanendo bloccati""E come se ne esce, Lloyd?""Basta fare un passo avanti, sir."Siamo cresciuti con delle certezze. Poi, un giorno, il mondo si è fermato, obbligandoci a guardare con occhi nuovi tutto quello che davamo per scontato. Dopo il grande successo dei primi tre capito...

A volte tocca inventarsi un amico per avere dei buoni consigli.Ed è proprio quello che ha fatto Sir, dubbioso signorotto nato dalla fantasia di Simone Tempia, quando ha deciso di immaginarsi il suo Lloyd, un maggiordomo inesistente che sa sempre trovare una risposta ai suoi dilemmi quotidiani.Nata su Facebook nel 2014, la pagina di Vita con Lloyd si è rapidamente imposta all'attenzione dei lettori per l'elegante sintesi con cui affronta temi come l'amore, il passare del tempo...

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people’s worst fears and most damning weaknesses.This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman saved from death by a masked man calling himself V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to shed the blanket of tyranny and oppressio...

Dopo il grande successo di Vita con Lloyd e In viaggio con Lloyd, Simone Tempia ritorna con una nuova selezione dei dialoghi surreali, agrodolci e delicatamente profondi che lo hanno reso celebre. Un libro ricco di inediti che accompagnerà i suoi lettori giorno dopo giorno, stagione dopo stagione, regalando una quotidiana pillola di ironica saggezza. 365 lampi di genio e dolcezza (366, contando il 29 febbraio) per riconciliarsi con il mondo ogni volta che ci sentiamo fuor...

‘She showed great courage and commitment in reporting from Burma and exemplified my belief that the best journalists are also the nicest’ – Aung San Suu Kyi‘One of the most distinguished television journalists of her generation’ – Huw Edwards‘Brilliant and indefatigable’ – Jeremy Bowen‘She had something you call moral courage and it rubbed off on others’ – David Aaronovitch‘She set the stand...

A volte, quando si è a corto di buoni consigli, gli amici tocca inventarseli. Ed è proprio quello che ha fatto Simone Tempia, quando ha deciso di creare su Facebook il suo Lloyd, un maggiordomo immaginario che con un rapido scambio di battute riesce sempre a trovare una risposta ai dilemmi quotidiani del suo sir. Nel giro di poco tempo, molti fedeli lettori si sono appassionati a questi dialoghi che, con elegante sintesi, toccano argomenti come l'amore, il passare degli anni, la paura e la...

The Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts has established itself as a leading text and is written by Simon Rainey KC, one of the foremost shipping practitioners with unrivalled experience in the field. It is the only modern work on the law of towage and offshore vessel services, providing a comprehensive and extensively researched account of the general law coupled with a detailed clause-by-clause commentary and analysis of all the major standard contracts used in the internat...

'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way.Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your wr...

David 'Bumble' Lloyd is one of cricket's great characters - hilarious, informative and insightful, and filled with boundless enthusiasm for the game. Now, in Simply the Best, he tells the stories of the most important, influential, talented and entertaining characters he has come across in sixty years in the game.Following on from the bestselling successes of Last in the Tin Bath and Around the World i...

Black Networked Resistance explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics’ historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digit...