Doppelgänger Jill Balcon

Doppelgänger Jill BalconDoppelgnger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of doubles (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. Arthur and Isabella is a story of the relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Years Eve a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second

in the ancient way

He was adopted at birth

Eamonn Grennan

from farmworkers to immigrant artists

including academic studies of Dickens' major novels

Fiona Cooper

Set in Saudi Arabia in the pre 9/11 era of the late 1980s the story deals with ‘honour killing’ [Sharaf = honour] and the activities of the Saudi religious police

Paul Barker was editor of New Society

including the variety of construction

the novel Everything Must Change (2007)

Little sons

Peter Clark: The Arab writer in English by Geoffrey Nash