Writers on Islands Joumana Haddad and three short stories from

and three short stories from Nihad Sirees

Andy Croft has edited several books for Five Leaves and has written many books of poetry and on literary history

Abdu Khal: Establishing an Aesthetic

and cheeks of mingled red and white

Writers on Islands Joumana Haddad and three short stories fromSome of the countrys leading writers are captured in this unique anthology which celebrates the many and varied islands around our shores. Kathleen Jamie, Mervyn Peake, John Betjeman, Brendan Behan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Grigson, W. B. Yeats, George Orwell, and Kathleen Raine are just a few of the 50 authors whose prose works evoke and record in a whole variety of ways, the culture, lives and essence of island life. The collection