Bricks and Brickwork in ReadingBrick features prominently in the towns of the Thames Valley, because the local geology provides little good building stone. Reading is particularly rewarding for the brick fancier, thanks to the variety of colours available and the inventive patterns that Victorian bricklayers loved to make. Illustrated throughout with photographs of surviving examples, Reading Bricks and Brickwork revels in the delights of air bricks and crinkle crankle walls, gets

Second edition of this classic book with a new postscript and a fresh selection of photos

utterly addictive

Lukman Derky A poem O Syria

He has written several articles on history and current affairs for Channel 4

his grandson

He has also written three novels (two published and one forthcoming)

not least the position of a white man in a Jamaica whose decolonisation has been in part about discovering its black identity

Georg Bühren

Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon

He taught for eleven years at Oregon State University and is now Professor of English at Linfield College

six fictions by Christopher Meredith take the reader from the South China Sea in 1946 to a nameless place at the end of time

courageous”