Without Delay is aimed at providing Rail O&M Managers, Network Owners, Rail Planners, Project Proponents and Regulators a structured description of the lessons I have learned over a 40 year career. It highlights the many insights, reflections and methodologies which I wish I had been taught and not had to learn for myself.\nSir Isaac Newton said that "if he had seen further than the rest it is because he stood on the shoulders of giants". I am not a giant but I hope that any reader will be able to "see further" as a consequence of reading the book. I would have appreciated having such a reference throughout my career.\nThe book considers both cultural and technical aspects of Rail Management and is aimed at helping Rail Managers to deliver greater value and lower risk to customers, Boards, Network Owners and the taxpayers.

Without Delay: A recipe for safety, operations and maintenance excellence

Business & Money

Lane, Simon

Management & Leadership

Intertype

The Real Illusion

'The Real Illusion' is an anthology of twenty-one stories spanning nearly three decades. Simon Lane's writing offers a journey of the mind, reflecting the peripatetic nature of the author's life, or lives. Sharp reportage joins lyrical and metaphorical explorations of the human condition to create a world of its own, always tinted with the most refined sense of humour, no matter what the subject. Enjoy the ride, from Los Angeles to London, from Iceland to Mexico. This will entertain and inspire the most well-travelled reader, indeed anyone seeking a moment's respite within the eye of the storm. Simon Lane was born in England. After graduating from art school in London in 1979, he lived successively in Berlin, Milan and New York. In 1988, he based himself in Paris. His poetry, short stories, essays and drawings have appeared in a variety of publications throughout Europe and the United States. He has also worked in film, television and radio, as a writer and as an actor. He is the author of four novels, Le Veilleur, Still-life with Books, Fear and Boca a Boca (Word of Mouth). In 2001, he moved to Rio de Janeiro. Tunga is Brazil's foremost contemporary artist. He has exhibited at the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume and many other museums and galleries worldwide. Over the past twenty years, he and Lane have collaborated on projects in a wide range of media. "An artful writer, and a funny one...Boredom is never a danger." -New York Times "Lane offers...a prismatic language that for all its obvious intelligence and wit never places the reader at a distance." -Publisher's Weekly "I like the hell out of Lane, the movie and the man, and with my whole heart I endorse him in these respects." -Gordon Lish

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Abingdon Square Publishing Ltd.

Twist

Seamus, alias Twist, is on the Eurostar train from Paris to London to see his twin brother for a birthday lunch. He tells us the story of his love affair with Elska, the captivating Finnish wife of his American friend, Flyte. The lyricism of his account is inspired by his late father, an Irish poet. Twist has sold one of his father's poems to an American record producer, so financing his boulevardier lifestyle and residence at the Alabama Hotel on the Left Bank. It's a geometrical tale. A love triangle. Twist looking through the two circles of 300, the speed of the train in kph. And his photographer friend, Agostini, constrained by edges. Above all, it's about people colliding, the protagonists caught in time and in the prism of Twist's mind. As the relationships play out, observe and savour those tender poetic moments when hearts, souls and bodies combine.

Contemporary

Still Life with Books is a novel of a doomed love affair, by young English author Simon Lane. Is is set in Paris. Lane's voice is fresh and hilarious, as welcome an addition to the postmodern landscape as Jay McInerny or Martin Amis.

Still Life With Books: A Novel

British & Irish

Bridgeworks

The coupling of art and commerce. It is the story of a writer, an Englishman named Fear, who lives in Paris, burdoned by debt.

Fear: A Novel

Humor & Satire

A wistful comic novel, set in Paris, that explores the coupling of are and commerce as a struggling writer, on his woman banker's advice, undertakes an erotic novel to pay his debts.

Bridge Works

Le veilleur

BOURGOIS

Passaparola: A murder mystery (Italian Edition)

Agata/Ottolibri

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Without Delay: A recipe for safety, operations and maintenance excellence

The Real Illusion

The Real Illusion

Twist

Twist

Still Life With Books: A Novel

Fear: A Novel

Fear: A Novel

Le veilleur

Passaparola: A murder mystery (Italian Edition)