Simon Sherlock

Full of funny and acute observations This Is What It Is, is a candid and very personal account of love as seen from the male perspective.

Along the kilometre stretch of Kilburn High road in London, there are twenty-eight pubs: that's one every thirty-six metres. Populated predominantly by the Irish, this area has come to be known as County Kilburn. Here we witness the loves, lives and laughs of a disparate group of dreamers, losers and ever-hopefuls.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.

Numa villa italiana, arruinada após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma enfermeira militar do exército canadiano cuida de um aviador britânico desconhecido, que teve queimaduras generalizadas quando o seu avião foi abatido. Assim, aos poucos, ele começa a narrar o grande envolvimento que teve com a mulher do seu melhor amigo e de como este amor, fortemente correspondido, acabou da pior maneira.