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THIS AGE WE'RE LIVING IN is a novel that faces up to the big questions: Can men make friendships across the generations? Can sadness be cured by Schopenhauer or shopping? Are the lives of lifestyle writers any less of a mess than anyone else's? And is everything really just rubbish? THIS AGE WE'RE LIVING IN is a funny, affecting and life-affirming novel about a grumpy old man coming to realise that, for all the inanity and insanity of the 21st...

Cultural Writing. Like everyone else, you dial and receive wrong numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? Part treatise on umor (humor without the h), and part treasure-map to a utopia worth living in, this surrealist adventure reveals a whole kaleidescope of new worlds. Along the way we are introduced to many "Friends of Wrong Numbers" through the ages--Gnostics, heretics, alchemists, nonconformist thinkers, poets,...

Essay. Focused on fortuitous encounters and their manysided magic, Rosemont in these essays explores the importance of play, the affinities of alchemy and anarchy, poetry in the comics, the revolutionary significance of a fairy tale, the game of Time-Travelers' Potlatch, and the future of surrealism. SURREALIST EXPERIENCES: 1001 DAWNS, 221MIDNIGHTS is Penelope Rosemont's first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts ori...

Penelope Rosemont's first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts originally published in surrealist journals from 1970 through the 90s, plus eleven that appear here for the first time. An ardent defender of all that is most liberating in the revolutionary tradition - from Robin Hood to the L A Rebellion - Rosemont is also a passionate defender of love, wilderness, and the poetic life. In these writings, critical theory...

Set in Wexford, Ireland in 1920, during the Irish struggle for independence: Jim Rowe is the newly appointed captain of a company of volunteers set up to combat the arrival of a battalion of Black and Tans under orders to quell any notions of independence among the local population. "From the Hardcover edition.

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From the bestselling Chinese author of Raise the Red Lantern, these bizarre and delicate stories, set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, capture the collision of old China with communism and today's tiger economy.

Willy Russell was born in Whiston, near Liverpool, and left school at fifteen. He worked as a ladies' hairdresser for six years, stacked stockings at Bear Brand, cleaned girders at Ford, before getting into writing, first as a songwriter then as a playwright. He is the author of, amongst others, the multi-award-winning plays - later made into films - Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, and the award-winning West End musical hits Blood Brothe...