Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and Other Stories Larry Jaffe

Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and Other Stories Larry JaffeTongue in cheek short stories that send up imperial myths. In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham by Sea a little town known for tea shops, pet shops, florist shops. Keen to kickstart their diversity policy, the Department sends for two black law enforcers who both think this an opportunity too good to miss: a chance to prove their cross cultural

now home to about 12

and the psycho-geography Real Wrexham (2007)

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s novel set in an Iraqi jail

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jihadi suicide-bombers and singing yellowhammers parade through the book in an incendiary combination

Robert Minhinnick

Both are locally well-known

was published in the UK by Mare's Nest as Between Sound and Silence

Wandeka Gayle’s mostly young black women protagonists win our hearts as risk-taking

that feeds a longing/desire/determination to write in the Mamiaith (Mothertongue) that she speaks

Poems of blood and birdsong

Meehan's work begins in intimate feeling but is ever-focused on the world