The Boy D H Melhem

The Boy D H MelhemA gripping Psychological thriller about parenthood and loss, bullying and revenge! Kito is the only child of his adoptive parents. Chubby and dark skinned, he is ruthlessly bullied at school, but at home he says nothing of what he is going through, only that he has pains in his stomach. After a class outing to the beach, Kito goes missing. Days later his lifeless body is discovered washed up on the sand. Determined to find the person responsible for

a Romanian sleeper-carriage - the familiar rendered uncanny through the distorting lenses of distance and life’s exigencies

which West Indians know of but cannot always communicate

teaching veteran ex-steelworkers and asylum seekers

Arranged chronologically

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son

Most of these poems are written in free verse

on water whirling through all the empyrean

I am aware that this sounds far too simple

” Emma Thompson

Basheer al-Baker

Wales has played its part in British battles over the past century

Newman weaves the hard language of politics