London Fictions Seamus Heaney

London Fictions Seamus HeaneyLondon Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland to Rachel Lichtenstein, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. It is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bed sit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All

Eurig Salisbury on Aled Jones Williams

but who despairs of him as 'sporadic'

then overlap with

Michael Augustin

there are always layers of complexity that work through their realistic surfaces: a sensitivity to psychological undertones

to address the sensitive issue of pupil/teacher relationships

Nasser al-Dhaheri: Short story The Sounds of Moans

Henry VIII and Isabella d’Este enjoy a clandestine encounter

the UK National Poetry Competition

the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat

It explores a wide variety of viewpoints – translated poems

the poems roam from an imaginary village to Manhattan