Samahani Laura Lundgren SmithSamahani, the latest work by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, winner of the 2020 Prix de la Littrture Arabe, means forgive me in Swahili, two words that stand in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel. Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native Zanzibaris at the hands of both Europeans and Arabs, that turns their apparent island paradise into a
suffused with the adventurous energy of Jack Kerouac
in Swansea
these scenes make rich and strange connections – between ancient and new
qu’il y a eu entre nous des journées comme celle-là par exemple où je t’avais perdue
In 2002 he won the ASTI Achievements Award for his contribution to literature at home and abroad
the poems are accompanied by wonderfully eye-catching illustrations by Rose Sanderson
He is well-known in Yorkshire as one half of the spoken-word performance double-act ‘The Hull to Scarborough Line’
reports on the Quartet and Garnet publishing houses
He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works
Ramsay Muir
it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since
the third in the critically acclaimed J McNee series will change the Dundee detective’s world forever
