Emigration used to be for retired people, now it is young families. In letters to his son, George Walden finds reasons for his move to Canada. The idea for this book first came about when one of George Walden' sons asked him whether he should emigrate. He set about writing down his thoughts in a letter, which he used in this book. ...

These are poems which welcome distraction & seem to have a lasting interest in registering & reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism & reconstructed second-hand words &, taken together, chart a form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the 20th century. ...

Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bob, the Nailer Swagger is back in the warzone. The Russian sniper with whom he duelled in the jungle & who killed his friend, Donny Fenn, has tracked him down to the remote mountains of Idaho. Soon one man is dead & Swagger's family is under threat. Why has the Russian resumed the conflict? ...

Ten years after the end of the Civil War, Nat Jordan who has fought in the Confederate army, is returning by railroad to his home near Kansas City. Then they are held up by so-called Quantrill raiders, led by Captain Coulter with whom Jordan had escaped from Union forces during the War. Coulter recognises Jordan & this leads to complications. ...

John Grisham's explosive novel is brought to the screen by Joel Schumacher. Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson) seeks violent revenge after his 10-year-old daughter is brutally assaulted. Lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew Mc Conaughey) has to save him from Death Row, against mounting pressure from both the Ku Klux Klan & the Civil Rights Movement. Sandra Bullock stars as Brigance's student lawyer aide, while Kevin Spacey appears as the ruthless prosecutor, Rufus Buckley. ...