Reds, Rebels and Radicals Mark Leech

Reds, Rebels and Radicals Mark LeechThe men and women featured in this book are an eclectic bunch. We have a mutineer; a couple of suffragettes, one of them framed for conspiracy to murder the Prime Minister; a man who led an armed rebellion in 1817; an early Quaker who incurred the bigotry and wrath of the governor of Massachusetts; a volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; a woman who fought for the abolition of slavery taking on not only the slave owners

where the dead have risen

her sisters and their mother Nell are left to fend for themselves in occupied France when her father is arrested by the Nazis and taken to an internment camp

was laid to rest

and pensive

whose outstanding achievement was to assemble in Nineveh

He now lives in Northumberland

with short stories from Ibrahim Samuel and Gladys Matar

Rocco Scotellaro

Errol John

Though their work is primarily written in Russian

The commission was funded by Creative Scotland

which won her the European Prize for Literature in 2011