Spun Glass John Hildebidle

Spun Glass John HildebidleOn a beach in Greece accessible only by sea or down a steep path the waves caress the land, crash against the rocks, keep watch at night or doze in the noonday sun. Visitors include: Aphrodite whose house is above the shore and her family from Athens. An English couple, who own the only other house visible from the beach, their children and these youngsters' friends. An Albanian migrant seeking work. A castaway from ancient Athens trying to return

a cancer diagnosis and potentially ruined his wife’s chances of getting a job in an ice cream shop

but reveal a subtle underscurrent of continued questioning of the world around us

her poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty

Kim Moore and Helen Mort

David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne

Robert Minhinnick is the prize-winning author of two volumes of essays

designed for intellectual slapstick

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between the bright spaces and the haunted ones

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Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf