Businessman George Barber (Tom Mc Camus) is discovered dead, with his head cut open & his brain removed, & the police are clueless as to how it all happened. A series of flashbacks shows us scenes from George's life, but it soon becomes clear that George lived not one life but many, arrayed across a number of possible worlds, & in each of these lives he loved a woman named Joyce (Tilda Swinton). The police eventually find George's brain in the laboratory of scientist Dr Kleber (Gabriel Gascon), where it is being subjected to some unusual experiments.. .. ...

Examines the claim that there is no fundamental distinction between fiction & history. This title asks whether these two possible worlds are in any way different from each other. To answer this question, it analyzes historical & literary texts to explore the connection between the postmodern theory of writing & the actual practice of it. ...

Features poems that imbue the physical world with human traits & human consciousness, the speakers imagining the landscapes of their days as alive with portentous meaning. This title

Includes:: poems mostly situated in the American Midwest & American South.

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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master & Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series. ...

Sexual drama from the man they call the Czech Fellini, Juraj Jakubisco. Never one to shy away from controversy, Jakubisco presents this highly-sexualised web of interweaving stories & characters. The tousled web

Includes:: Sabrina, her boss Zikmund & his partner Viola, the pleasure seeking ageing hippy photographer Bakchus, the naive Jarouska & his wife, the barmaid Messalina, the confused virgin Kristyna, the cynical med student & part time prostitute Kleopatra & the rocker, Adam. Each is living out a different little drama but they're all connected & they're all sexual. The film examines the aftermath of fun
- the resounding consequences for others & ourselves, of careless sexual actions. Also poignantly touched upon is the resulting emptiness of finding that the short term kicks of a free & easy sexual lifestyle doesn't do anything but exacerbate the emptiness we use it to dispel.


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This collection of essays reflects the debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, & the growth of post colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America & Europe. ...

Britain in the late 1990s. Post Britpop. The dawn of the rock & roll apocalypse. If it feels like there's nothing new under the sun, that's because there is nothing new under the sun. This title tells a story of survival in the music industry.. .and the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. ...