The PharmacistTwenty four year old Billy is beautiful and sexy. AlbertThe Pharmacistis a compelling but damaged older man, and a veteran of Londons late 90s club scene. After a chance meeting in the heart of the Londons East End, Billy is seduced into the sphere of Albert. An unconventional friendship develops, fuelled by Alberts queer narratives and an endless supply of narcotics. Alive with the twilight times between day and night, consciousness and

There’s rigorous scholarship here

Linton Kwesi Johnson and Kwame Dawes indicate some of these

unadorned fashion of the unexpected complexities of everyday life

Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows and lives inside a mysterious library

His award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in numerous North American and European journals and anthologies

Christopher Horton

but there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach

for their beauty and tenderness

She trained as a painter at Reading University

Stifled by middle class life

Mariya Stepanova

and a veteran of London’s late ’90s club scene