A Servant of the GovernorA Servant of the Governor is an historical novel based on actual events surrounding the Swing Riots and their aftermath. Rather than a sweeping narrative of the riots, it offers an examination of tiny, almost fragmentary areas as it re creates the lives of two brothers, Joseph and Robert Mason, who led protests against local farmers and clergy in Hampshire. They were sentenced to transportation to Australia for life. Joseph Mason left behind a wife

This might seem to many the kind of thing one 'grows out' of

He lives in Reading

who is again planning to dramatise the new collection

Trapped by patriarchy and male passivity

and pleasure

castaway crickets

Faisal Darraj on the problems besetting Arab novelists

Bob Moncur

and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke'

” — Stride

To mark the 40th anniversary of their astonishing achievement in South Africa

a current which can run back and forth along wires