Industrial RootsRooted in the oral tradition of storytelling, Industrial Roots is an exceptional collection of interwoven domestic vignettes narrated by different female characters. The stories in this book concern mainly the daily experiences of blue collar life amongst the members of a working class family. A woman that feels the urge to steal babies, an alcoholic husband, cousins in love with the same man, aging parents, absent fathers all have a place in the

In an unnamed city

whose flocks lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts

she was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of East Anglia

Maurice Harmon's poetry ranges from recreations of an idyllic pastoral world on the Ardgillan estate in north County Dublin to memories of psychological numbing at boarding school to scenes of intellectual and sexual challenges and confusions at University College

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Birds of Nabaa follows the physical and spiritual journeys of its narrator from his beginnings in a remote Mauritanian village

What should she do if she loves them all

Without navigates complex issues in a very human way

though this can sometimes involve becoming trapped in an absurd or confining persona

He has won an Eric Gregory Award

exploring what it means to hold down a job when all the odds seem to be stacked against you

‘Michael Alpert is to be congratulated on producing a book that is both scholarly and accessible