SPIT Bobbie Louise Hawkins

SPIT Bobbie Louise HawkinsWelcome to the village of Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion. Suffering an unexplained, perpetual banishment the Spook of Spit is watching everyone and everything nothing goes unnoticed. Bearing witness to the village's half truths and suppressed secrets, fragments of its own dark and obscured history are unveiled. As events

set in Baghdad 2006

of ancestry

Abdu Khal – Excerpt from the novel Clay

Indians and Chinese – against the colonial establishment

Manhal Alsarraj

publications and personal successes

an artist and scholar

Nizar Qabbani: Poem –

aging prize-fighters

and staring across the water to the house in which his half-Native daughter Elizabeth has grown up

Smith finds himself in hot pursuit of a mysterious vessel that can pass through dimensions

Middle Scots