Being and Somethingness is a book of poems, aphorisms, texts and insights that represent a tangential way to see life afresh. It is also a quasi-mystical tome which presents an approach to seeing the universe and seeking enlightenment. It is illustrated. It is both metaphysical and existentialist, and in tandem with potentially life-changing wisdoms it is also humorous and endearing... If only for its title that is clearly aping Sartre's classic philosophical work - there is the potential for it to become a Cult and Student classic...

If Marcel Duchamp, Friedrich Nietzsche and Le Corbusier collaborated on a project The Cubist's House would be the result. A cross between The Prisoner and Tales of the Unexpected things aren't always quite how they appear. When English Literature lecturer and minor author Jethro Carmichael returns home to find his apartment ransacked and his partner gone missing he decides it's all getting too much for him and it's time for a change of scenery. Renney van der Stratten is an American pretending to be Dutch... His bigoted Bostonian mother, and his whisky-swilling father aren't helping his state...