Sulaiman Addonia, the author of “Silence is my mother tongue”, had to flee Eritrea with his mother and siblings to a refugee camp in Sudan when he was a child.   Sean Sheehan   This is the plight of the central characters in his novel – Saba, her older brother […]

Some books need to be written and this is one of them. Those working to shore up support for Israeli apartheid ought to be held accountable and this is what motivates Hil Aked, the author of “Friends of Israel”.   Sean Sheehan   As defined by the International Criminal Court, […]

We are all doing it – walking down a street, noting a body huddled on the pavement or asleep under a cardboard bedroom and carrying  on to wherever we are going.   Text: Sean Sheehan Photos: Anthony Dawton   Busy lives discourage reflection on what can seem like just another […]

Shakespeare earned his living in the theatre as a playwright, actor, director and shareholder in an acting company.   Sean Sheehan   The company was successful enough to finance the building of its own theatre, The Globe, on the south bank of the Thames in 1599. Destroyed by fire in […]

“My guy”, the first of the short stories in Izumi Suzuki’s collection “Hit parade of tears”, is a love story about a young woman and an extra-terrestrial.   Sean Sheehan   This could be too kooky for its own good but the tale is as convincing as it is affective. […]