Birds, Blocks and Stamps Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih

Birds, Blocks and Stamps Marie-Thérèse Abdel-MessihRobert Gillmor, ornithologist, artist, illustrator and author, was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce four series of stamps (now available from Post & Go machines) featuring British birds. Brought together for the first time in larger than stamp size, these prints demonstrate the authors lifelong love and appreciation of our nations garden birds. The pictures are brought to life by the authors own account of the process by which his lino cuts are

Annie Katchinska

for the last time

The Admirations (1989) which won the Oregon Book Award

in Europe and other parts of the world

John Jordan (1930-88) was a leading light in the literary life of Dublin from the 1950s until his death in Cardiff in June 1988

• Guillaume Apollinaire

a sestina and other pieces about the author's children

Abdulmajid Ben Jalloun: "A Moroccan in Manchester" excerpt from the memoirs Fi’l Tufula [In my Childhood]

” – The Times

Wild Animals

Under a dark veil she wrung her hands

but it is 1976 and the civil war is closing in