The Blood Red Sun Gregory Orfalea

The Blood Red Sun Gregory OrfaleaMadame Spots is lauded for setting up a free school in her village, but her seductive silk qipao and obvious wealth elicit deadly envy as well as admiration. The Phoenix Widow finds a jar of ingots but loses her precious son to wily and, ultimately, unwise kidnappers. Little Spoon stumbles into Running Cow Valley Village with two pails on her water pole and inadvertently becomes a hero to people parched of leadership. Feng Laicai, a diminutive farmer

which explores love

Youssef al-Mohemeed Three Poems

Hungarian poet

Other excerpts include:

their lives fragile

The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán is a comprehensive study of Irish women's poetry published in book form in the twentieth century

the pictures on the walls

with the dramatist Michael Wall hammering out his plays on a portable typewriter

Music Outside captures the spirit

this challenging book begins with a discussion of what it means to be civilised and leads the reader through an evaluation and analysis of the place of Islam in the modern world and its relationship to Islamist terrorism

While this small tribe is held at the mercy of these headwinds

in the village of Nelson in the Rhymney Valley