Dreaming of Dead People John Killick Najwa Binshatwan

Najwa Binshatwan

"This exciting collection of short stories are brimming with suspense

Kathryn Simmonds’ first book of poems

of a paranoia and miserliness that gradually takes over Jane Chirp’s life and leads her to move to ever more cramped and dingy flats where she surrounds herself with her belongings like a besieged hermit

Dreaming of Dead People John Killick Najwa BinshatwanIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes