Reading's Bayeux Tapestry Najlaa Osman Eltom

Reading's Bayeux Tapestry Najlaa Osman EltomEmbroidered in 1885 1886, Reading's version of the famous Bayeux Tapestry is a faithful, full length replica of the original except in a few beguiling details. True to the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, its Victorian makers in the Leek Embroidery Society, matched their materials, colours and techniques to those of the eleventh century nuns thought to have created the original. The result is an extraordinarily vibrant reproduction,

Sawiris Fiction Prizes for Egyptian Literature

Mexico City

Permanent Red

The collection includes accounts of his Jewish Communist family's conflicts with authority

Do journeys change or confirm us

He explores the lives of individuals hidden from society’s gaze

Novelist Wendy Robertson spent three years working with female prison inmates

Mok’s shared passion in life with literature

Sometimes he is not so tough after all

He died on a return visit to Trinidad in 1994

this wonderful work consists of two long poems only

or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar