London FictionsLondon Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland to Rachel Lichtenstein, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. It is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bed sit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All

the limits of human frustration and patience

cinematic and experimental devices

about the mysteries of Mayan culture and the beauty of the small country known as the ‘Land of Trees’

Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test

hard to dip out of

Norah Hanson was born in Hull in 1937

as the water of an aqueduct is conveyed in subterranean pipes

Fakhri Saleh

Syracuse University Press

Her first book of poems

Edward Said (1935-2003)

Selected Poems 1935-81 is a unique poetic record of British intellectual and political life from the high hopes of the Popular Front and the anti-Fascist War through the long retreat of the Cold War to the nuclear arms race of the 1980s