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M822:
Eastbound Transatlantic
8 June 2008 - 14 June 2008
Queen Mary 2 - 6 nights
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QM2 Cunard Insights™
2 Programmes available.
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Alison Weir
Alison Weir has published eleven best-selling books on British kings and queens, and one historical novel Innocent Traitor, about Lady Jane Grey, England`s ill-fated nine-days Queen (which has been optioned for a TV drama). Alison`s non-fiction titles include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Lancaster and York, The Princes in the Tower, Elizabeth the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, Henry VIII: King and Court, Isabella, She Wolf of France and Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess. Alison has appeared on many TV and radio programmes (including Timewatch and Wan`s Hour), helped provide BBC Radio 4`s commentary for wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, has been a historical advisor for theatre and RV productions and has lectured widely in Britain and the USA since 1991. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and until 1997 ran a private school for children with special needs. Her interests include genealogy, reading, music of all kinds, travel, films and socialising with friends.
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Douglas R. Burgess
Author, jurist and historian Douglas R. Burgess has spent a lifetime with ships and the sea. Raised on a yacht in New Rochelle, NY, his earliest memories are almost exclusively nautical. Burgess’s fascination with the sea has two different facets. First, as a maritime historian, he published his first book in 2005: a history of the Anglo-German passenger liner race entitled “Seize the Trident”. His second book, due for release in Fall 2008 and titled “Harbor the Devil”, is a history of Atlantic piracy from 1650-1725.
The second avenue of Burgess’ maritime interests is legal. Mr. Burgess has argued for a reconsideration of international law on terror based on the understanding that terrorists are hostis humani generis (enemies of the human race) and thus akin to pirates. This thesis has been the subject of several articles in both popular and scholarly magazines and was recently featured in the New York Times.
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Cunard Book Club
1 Programmes available.
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On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's new novella, On Chesil Beach brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging new novel. On Chesil Beach. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives. On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed – by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. A student at Sussex University, after graduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writing course established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. He was awarded a CBE in 2000. Ian McEwan lives in London. His latest novel is On Chesil Beach (2007), shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Ian McEwan, the #1 bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement He is currently writing the libretto to For You, a new opera about an ageing conductor/composer, with music by Michael Berkeley.
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