Serial Damage
Book
An 80-year-old widow is pruning her roses in Cornwall when she is shot dead by a stranger. This is...
The Concert Pianist
Book
Philip Morahan is a great pianist who can no longer play the piano. At fifty-two he is childless,...
I Served the King of England: Featuring an Introduction by Adam Thirlwell
Bohumil Hrabal and Adam Thirlwell
Book
This book contains an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. Sparkling with comic genius and narrative...
Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems
Louis MacNeice, Michael Longley and Edna Longley
Book
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and...
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy
Book
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book,...
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Book
Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant...
Ecstasy
Book
Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent...
Fair Game (2010)
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Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her...
The Ramen Girl (2008)
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Abby (Brittany Murphy) moves to Japan with her boyfriend, only to be abandoned and broken up with....
Syriana (2005)
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The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous...