Uncle Freddie and The Prince of WalesA new collection of short stories from the acclaimed South Shields writer Alex Ferguson, again focusing on the author's part real part mythical Uncle Freddie, and again located in the Jarrow of the 1940s where the author grew up. Ferguson's writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside, and the surreally imaginative meeting such famous characters as the Prince of Wales or Joe Stalin upstairs on a no. 38 bus

Ahmed Khaled Towfik - Excerpt from the novel Utopia

” – Rob Burdock

as he explains the new and “extraordinary relationship between Arab literature and the European reader”

The World of Arab Fiction begins with Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim

James Howarth The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni

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Widad Benmoussa – Selected Poems

Driss Chraïbi (1926 – 1 April 2007) – A Tribute

witnessed by the reception of his work both by the public and the critics

moving music off the paper is a philosophical consideration of jazz composition

and interview with Ghazi Algosaibi

frequently brought him back from the city