Acts of Mutiny
Acts of Mutiny
Derek Beaven
The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the others aboard. Beneath them in the hold, beyond where the dogs and cats and mynah bird are kept, squats a far more sinister cargo – a nuclear arms shipment bound for the Outback testing grounds.A romantic love affair then, on a doomed boat in dangerous oceans, in the background the bruised and brooding England of the 1950s; a devastatingly accurate examination of English class and manners; a story about national and domestic violence and its consequences. Brimming with unforgettable descriptions of the seas, its animals, its weather and the ports stopped at along the way, Acts of Mutiny establishes Derek Beaven as one of England’s finest new writers.
Acts of Mutiny
DEREK BEAVEN
Copyright (#ulink_56bb2e2f-05e3-5fd8-998b-caee915eaefc)
Acts of Mutiny is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of its characters to real people, living or dead, is coincidental. The vessels upon which the action takes place are similarly imaginary.
Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
This edition published in 1999
Copyright © 1998 Derek Beaven
The right of Derek Beaven to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN: 9781857026627
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007401727
Version: 2014-10-07
Dedication (#uc01b1475-76a6-5557-b78c-3ee153ff7e27)
For David
Contents
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Acknowledgements (#ulink_38ee3851-77be-5f93-bd97-d3d2208b6983)
About the Author
Praise (#ulink_511c5d70-e2b3-5c0a-a148-5776bcfeb7a5)
Also by the Author
About the Publisher (#ulink_f318d146-cf82-5c07-8668-725c777fb8ab)
PART ONE Motion (#ulink_4caa7977-69ea-50db-bcce-7c6de5bed672)
Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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Derek Beaven
The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the others aboard. Beneath them in the hold, beyond where the dogs and cats and mynah bird are kept, squats a far more sinister cargo – a nuclear arms shipment bound for the Outback testing grounds.A romantic love affair then, on a doomed boat in dangerous oceans, in the background the bruised and brooding England of the 1950s; a devastatingly accurate examination of English class and manners; a story about national and domestic violence and its consequences. Brimming with unforgettable descriptions of the seas, its animals, its weather and the ports stopped at along the way, Acts of Mutiny establishes Derek Beaven as one of England’s finest new writers.
Acts of Mutiny
DEREK BEAVEN
Copyright (#ulink_56bb2e2f-05e3-5fd8-998b-caee915eaefc)
Acts of Mutiny is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of its characters to real people, living or dead, is coincidental. The vessels upon which the action takes place are similarly imaginary.
Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
This edition published in 1999
Copyright © 1998 Derek Beaven
The right of Derek Beaven to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN: 9781857026627
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007401727
Version: 2014-10-07
Dedication (#uc01b1475-76a6-5557-b78c-3ee153ff7e27)
For David
Contents
Cover (#ue78a1ffd-28b5-5780-ac55-9927143ffa65)
Title Page (#u3d2c722b-32c4-5c4f-b716-1e0e804770f2)
Copyright (#ulink_960630ee-ce35-5a60-a3c6-27efb7807ca9)
Dedication (#ubbcad15a-2b93-5a51-9053-1bfaea0dd808)
PART ONE Motion
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Acknowledgements (#ulink_38ee3851-77be-5f93-bd97-d3d2208b6983)
About the Author
Praise (#ulink_511c5d70-e2b3-5c0a-a148-5776bcfeb7a5)
Also by the Author
About the Publisher (#ulink_f318d146-cf82-5c07-8668-725c777fb8ab)
PART ONE Motion (#ulink_4caa7977-69ea-50db-bcce-7c6de5bed672)
Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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Derek Beaven
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О книге: The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Newton’s Niece (1994).On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the others aboard. Beneath them in the hold, beyond where the dogs and cats and mynah bird are kept, squats a far more sinister cargo – a nuclear arms shipment bound for the Outback testing grounds.A romantic love affair then, on a doomed boat in dangerous oceans, in the background the bruised and brooding England of the 1950s; a devastatingly accurate examination of English class and manners; a story about national and domestic violence and its consequences. Brimming with unforgettable descriptions of the seas, its animals, its weather and the ports stopped at along the way, Acts of Mutiny establishes Derek Beaven as one of England’s finest new writers.