A City Burning Peter Oram

A City Burning Peter OramSet in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, many of the stories in A City Burning concern a point of choice and decision. Characters reach a turning point at which their lives can become fuller and more meaningful, but at a cost to themselves. In others they bear witness to an event must decide whether to become involved or pass by. They could be ordinary people in Belfast during the Troubles or their aftermath, or during the Covid 19 pandemic, or

As a narrative of deep historical insight into the commodification and abuse of humanity

and the deadly twin viruses of stupidity and selfishness

the Making of an American Smile is a story about a girl who was born missing two of her front teeth and the journey it took to correct this defect

“Passionate and honest

there are fiction writers from Morocco (Abdelkarim Jouiti) and Oman (Jokha al-Harthi)

was published as All This and 10%

Egill Skallagrímsson was the most original

intuitively sussed

translated by Ken Cockburn

Ouyang Jue

Sharif al-Rubai

Pascale Petit trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and tutors for Tate Modern