R Hampson: 2 books

Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.

This is a story of a family fighting for survival in a world that may one day resemble our own. While on a business trip to Chicago, a man is separated from the wife he loves and the two sons he adores, who must fend for themselves in California in the opening hours of a nuclear war. His only hope...