Englaland Abdel-Monem RamadanAfter the battle of Brunanburh, when thelstans army defeated an invading alliance of Scots, Irish, Britons and Norse, the Viking mercenary Egil Skallagrimsson extemporised a panegyric for the English and their king. Englaland is a stunning re imagining of Skallagrimssons song, an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody, bloody minded and bloody brilliant people. Danish huscarls, Falklands war heroes, pit village bird nesters, aging prize
Born in Tredegar and educated at Abersytwyth and Swansea
an extract translated by Paul Batchelor
Mona Zaki Novel of Youssef al-Mohaimeed Traps of Scent
Love Lessons was the first novel for young adults
Raymond Humphreys
and Jack is soon on his way to Osaka to complete Henri’s collection
oblique glances and condensed emotional intrigue
in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children
Some with a flattering word
It has been very consciously modernist
Michael Rosenís work for radio and television includes writing and presenting for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and for the BBC World Service
Twenty years later
