THE DARKNESS OF COLOURSAn historical thriller narrated from two different perspectives, in two eras. The novel revolves, around kidnapping of five babies during the night of 5th of April 1885. This is the start of the experiment into the idea of nature vs nurture. What happens if these children are given different upbringing? Twenty five years later the children now grown up suddenly reappear on the doorsteps of their biological parents. Confused by his daughters memory

Fourthly the study proposes ways of rereading Walcott’s work – its narrative modes

He befriends Elva

Albert—The Pharmacist—is a compelling but damaged older man

In this welcome and overdue book expert authors guide us through the history

a Turkish girl who grows up in 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker

Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft

Emma Danes

and the Redeemer

have told your beads

media-centred London but the working-class community of his childhood in the Forest of Dean

are interwoven with pieces set in the poet’s native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality

was born in Oxford in 1962