The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer Format:Paperback

The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer Format:PaperbackWhen a seventeen year old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase his dream of breaking into the arts, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son. Set in the early 1990s, The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer is a sharply observed, darkly comic coming of age novel about ambition, survival, and the strange intimacies forged by necessity. Longlisted for the International Prize for

Louise's life is profoundly shaped by her forceful matriarchal grandmother and by her schooling

atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales

and events which allow the Caribbean reader to revel in nostalgia and permit the non-Caribbean a peek into that part of the region that is not dressed up to lure tourists

continues to fail him - until

London Grip Poetry Review

"In the best of these poems Micheal Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea

kidney stones

The English Earthquake and Bargain with the Watchman and her Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems has recently appeared

All the rest home doors have name tags

we listen to the grief of a body riven with cancer

jeopardising a hard-won but brittle autonomy

She was also director of the Cleveland Poetry Centre and associate professor at Cleveland State University