Harmattan Tony Curtis

Harmattan Tony CurtisSet against the stark beauty of sub Saharan West Africa Harmattan is evocative and heart wrenching. Suffused with an anger that is all the more powerful for its masterful understatement, this is a story that will be talked about for years to come. Will appeal strongly to readers of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Half a Yellow Sun and similar novels. Harmattan (n. A dry, dusty wind that blows from the Sahara probably from the Arabic haram, a forbidden or

The second novel from this highly-acclaimed

He was a friend of fellow Swansea writers Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins

Steeped in – but eventually moving well beyond – the influence of his mentor and friend Charlie Parker

seeking to show how its musicians always reflected in their music the issues of their day

Fortunes were won and lost through side stakes and illegal gambling

from reality to fantasy

“I cannot recommend this book too highly

now famed as the prototype for the fictional Bridge on the River Kwai

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Knute Skinner's first full-length collection in six years

others grappling with complex emotions and states of mind

translated by Mary-Ann Constantine and the author