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M813:
Eastbound Transatlantic
16 April 2008 - 22 April 2008
Queen Mary 2 - 6 nights
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QM2 Cunard Insights™
1 Programmes available.
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Jay Bryant
Jay Bryant is a novelist, political commentator and communications consultant. He holds two degrees in speech from Northwestern University, has worked as a TV producer, writer and director, and taught speech at the University of Maine.
Mr. Bryant served as assistant to the late Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie, as special assistant to former Congressman Bob Michel (Illinois) and Senator Bill Brock (Tennessee), and as Communications Director of both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, although not at the same time. His commentaries are regularly featured on numerous blogs, newspapers and radio talk programs, as well as on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He is also a moderator of the Capitol Hill Workshop.
Jay’s new novel, Earth and Water, is due out this month. His first novel, The Sugar Rat, was co-authored with Gregory H. Bohlen. He has also written jokes for "Bozo's Circus", developed the first generic political party TV advertising program in history and once named a war. (The Yom Kippur War; it's a long story.) His documentary program "At Issue" aired nationally on CNBC and the Discovery Channel. In addition, he has created political campaign advertising in more than 60 winning U.S. Senatorial and Congressional elections.
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Cunard Book Club
1 Programmes available.
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday
Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning to glorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel; interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, and interview transcripts that deftly capture the absurdity of bureaucratic dysfunction. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
Paul Torday studied English literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, before embarking on a business career. He lives in Northumberland. This is his first book.
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