A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence 560 pages Kiberd Declan ...

A tense truce holds between the Capulets & the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo & Juliet Benvolio Romeo's best friend is in love with Rosaline Juliet's cousin; but Rosaline is bent on revenge After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald was specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people ...

GUARDIAN EVENING STANDARD & BOOKFORUM BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Kathy Acker Rich girl street punk scholar stripper victim media-whore & cultural icon The late Kathy Acker's legend & writings are wrapped in mythologies many of them created by her Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50 Acker's legend has faded but her writing has become clearer A few years ago the writer Chris Kraus author of I Love Dick found that her own experiences were becoming more & more like Kathy's She began writing about Acker 'through the distance but with this incredible frisson of feeling that often I could write "I" instead of "she"' This is 'literary friction' The first fully authorised biography of the avant-garde writer Kathy Acker by the woman who arrived on the scene straight after her who shared some of her boyfriends & friends & her artistic ambitions Using exhaustive archival research & ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues & friends Kraus traces the woman behind the notorious novels & places her at the centre of a kaleidoscopic artistic world' The path of the female artist Is hell Chris Kraus's veracious & intricately structured portrait rouses & stirs as it documents in meticulous & fascinating detail the life work & body of Kathy Acker & what it takes to a become a 'great writer as countercultural hero' Viv Albertine' This is a gossipy anti-mythic artist biography which feels like it's being told in one long rush of a monologue over late-night drinks by someone who was there' Sheila Heti ...

Two women Two villages Different destinies Odeta's life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery running her father's grocery store in a remote Albanian village One day a stranger from Tirana walks into the shop & promises her a new career in London Odeta's life is about to change but not in the way she expected Journalist Kate lives on a quiet London street & seems to have a perfect life but she worries about her son Ben who struggles to make friends Kate blames the internet & disconnects her family from the online world so they can get to know their neighbours On a visit to her home village in Wales Kate is forced to confront a secret from her past But greater danger lies closer to home Perhaps Kate's neighbours are not the friendly community they seem ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After a horrific car accident Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral Confused terrified & feeling still very much alive Anna doesn&t believe she&s dead despite the funeral director&s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead & is the only one who can help her Trapped inside the funeral home with nobody to turn to except Eliot Anna is forced to face her deepest fears & accept her own death But Anna&s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can&t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn&t what he appears to be As the funeral nears Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side With an unrelenting edge of menace Afterlife is a stylish psychological thriller which provocatively questions the line between life & death Actors Liam Neeson Justin Long Christina Ricci Josh Charles Chandler Canterbury Celia Weston Shuler Hensley Rosemary Murphy Malachy Mc Court Luz Alexandra Ramos Laurel Bryce & Barbara Singer Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes & the special Jury prize at the Chicago International Film Festival the critically acclaimed After Lucia is directed by Michel Franco (Daniel & Ana) The story follows the relationship between Roberto & his 17 year old daughter Alejandra Roberto is very depressed after his wife Lucia dies in a car accident & decides to move away with his daughter to a new city They try hard to adjust to their new life & Alejandro does her best to help but struggles as she becomes the victim of bullying at her new school To protect her father she decides not to tell him anything but as the bullying gets worse her situation becomes more & more desperate Actors Tessa Ia Gonzalo Vega Jr Tamara Yazbek & Hernán Mendoza Director Michel Franco Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages Spanish Subtitles English ...

The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENTOne hot summer's day John Cole decides to leave his life behind He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to & drives out of London When his car breaks down & he becomes lost on an isolated road he goes looking for help & stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house Its residents welcome him with open arms
- but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye They all know him by name they've prepared a room for him & claim to have been waiting for him all along Who are these people? & what do they intend for John? Elegant gently sinister & psychologically complex After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the author of The Essex Serpent
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John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them The implications of this argument are highly significant If this is the case methods are always political & it raises the question of what kinds of social realities we want to create Most current methods look for clarity & precision It is usually said that only poor research produces messy findings & the idea that things in the world might be fluid elusive or multiple is unthinkable Law's startling argument is that this is wrong & it is time for a new approach Many realities he says are vague & ephemeral If methods want to know & help to shape the world then they need to reinvent themselves & their politics to deal with mess That is the challenge Nothing less will do ...

A love story set in the magical Mole Antonelliana (the Museum of Cinema in Turin Italy) A young woman comes into the museum to escape from the police & waits for her boyfriend to come & get her It is then she meets the night watchman Martino & becomes enchanted with the museum Martino & his love for the world of film She then finds that she has to choose between Martino & Angelo ...

Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed In After Obama Robert Singh examines how & why US influence has weakened & contributed to the erosion of the world America made endangering international order & liberal values A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia China & Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to fray But challenging claims of an inevitable American decline Singh argues that US leadership is a matter of will as much as wallet Despite partisan polarization at home & the rise of the rest abroad Washington can renew American leadership & through a New American Internationalism pave a path to the restoration of global order Timely & provocative the book offers a powerful critique of the Obama Doctrine & a call for strategic resolution in place of 'leading from behind' ...