So We Live John BergerThe novelist Alexander Baron (1917 1999) was born into a working class Jewish home in Hackney, joined the Communist Party as a young man, saw the thick of battle in Sicily and Normandy, and became one of the most admired writers of post war Britain. His first novel, From the City, From the Plough (1948), was acclaimed as the definitive novel of the Second World War, the first of a trilogy including Theres No Home (1950) and The Human Kind (1953). This
full of rhythm and gentle flow - never a dull moment
who has spent a lifetime pondering the true meaning of love – right up until the fateful October morning on which this story starts
Lisa Marie Brodsky’s poetry
Spirited independent and intelligent
Here we have an exciting collection by a young
as another spring dawns
from a poet who goes from strength to strength with every year that passes
the International Brigades
we tread a tantalising tightrope between the confessional and the invented
Trammel is the powerful debut collection from a voice that demands to be heard
The poems in The Blue Guitar conjure all at once both the pathos of the individual human situation and all the echoes of the wider world beyond
By necessity
