Breaking KayfabeGrowing up in a council house in Leeds, Wes Brown dreamed of becoming a 'real' man like the ones in his ex pro wrestler dad's tales of heroes and villains, gods and monsters. The only problem was he never told him they were fake. In this modern day Pinocchio story, Wes follows in his father's footsteps in the hope of coming to terms with the fictions that make a man.

45 years later

The muleteer’s daughter was ultimately more difficult to leave than the city girlfriend

Meanwhile Awa and the remaining

violence and fear

the author of acclaimed biographies of Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett and co-author of The Rough Guide to Jazz

Autumn/Winter 2007

and that is here too

or a realisation about herself

There's an article on Seamus Heaney

Mohammed Alnaas

and being part of a political movement

His plays include Half A Vegetable