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19th July 2014
Israel-Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Ukraine

Two Watermelons: Inner Reflections & a Letter from Ukraine

1. Rebelling against the old Arab adage, the Palestinian novelist Emile Habiby ‘believed that it was possible, and even useful, to “carry two watermelons under one arm” – that is, to take up both literature and politics’. The risk, of course, being that you will drop and smash both. Everyone who knows me knows I care about Palestine. And Ukraine.…

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Astrology Emile Habiby Gaza Lyuddmyla Pavlyuk Tarot

30th December 2013
Book Reviews, Israel-Palestine, Poetry

2013: Not just another listless year . . .

The publication of Seoul Survivors made 2013 a busy year for my writing career. With the next two SF novels pawing at the door, however, at times I feared my reading was suffering. In line with my random book-grabbing habits, I made a haphazard effort to post reviews on Goodreads, but found it impossible to keep up regular appearances. So…

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Arthur C Clarke Bridget Whelan Colin Grant Donald Gardner Doris Lessing Gaza Hard SF Jackie Wills John Shire Marguerite Duras Musheir El Farra Patricia Evans Solzhenitsyn Verbal Abuse

25th December 2013
Israel-Palestine, Poetry

Midnight Mass and Christmas Thoughts

Midnight Mass isn’t really my tradition. I was brought up a Quaker, and while my ex-Anglican parents would occasionally take us to a hymn service at Christmas, I much prefered being tucked up in a duvet on the sofa listening to Twas The Night Before Christmas, read to us from a little red book with a sellotaped spine. Christmas was…

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All Saints Christmas Gaza George Mackay Brown Syria

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