‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards narrative here involving a book-search launched by graphic novelist Alan Moore and a dealer (the dapper but barking Driffield), but it’s little more than an excuse to showcase a number of authors and other miscreants.
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.
Saga inteligente e acachapante de um pelotão de soldados americanos, acompanhando-os através da Europa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cenas dramáticas intercaladas com imagens de noticiários. A guerra não tem vencedores, apenas sobreviventes. Matar destrói os assassinos, bem como os mortos, porque mata a decência, o autorrespeito e, finalmente, a própria vida. A história segue os passos de um pelotão de jovens soldados americanos desde os primeiros dias da Batalha da Inglaterra, passando pela luta feroz na Itália e na França, para terminar na paz inquieta de Berlim.
Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together the more age difference becomes a rift between them.
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
