Reds, Rebels and RadicalsThe men and women featured in this book are an eclectic bunch. We have a mutineer; a couple of suffragettes, one of them framed for conspiracy to murder the Prime Minister; a man who led an armed rebellion in 1817; an early Quaker who incurred the bigotry and wrath of the governor of Massachusetts; a volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; a woman who fought for the abolition of slavery taking on not only the slave owners

qualities of air

between routes and roots

Faisal Darraj: The novelist of alienation in daily life

cathedrals and orchestras

from George Gissing to Zadie Smith

including academic studies of Dickens' major novels

He moved permanently to England in 1929 and played in dance and jazz bands in clubs and theatres

In 2011 the poet Paul Summers moved with his wife and their two young children from Tyneside to Queensland

Eavan Boland

means 'a sowing abroad'

regulars in fairytales and rich pickings for derogatory idioms and expressions

the old currency that is no longer valid