Just finished Basma Abdel Aziz‘s second novel Here is a Body, and thought I’d get my thoughts down here before they fade with the return to teaching and all the other stuff. First thing to say is, this is an important novel, and reading it can deepen your understanding of what it would be likeContinue reading “Review of ‘Here is a Body’”
Category Archives: Non-fiction
On the trail of the Celtic Japonistes
My novel The Hotel Hokusai is due to be published later this year by Glasgow’s Ringwood Publishing. This is how I came to write about a Scottish artist and a Korean migrant eel vendor in 1890s Yokohama… In the summer of 2014, a couple of months before Scotland’s independence referendum, I was walking down LeithContinue reading “On the trail of the Celtic Japonistes”
Island of Lost Souls
In the aftermath of revolution in North Africa in 2011, a migration crisis thrust the Italian island of Lampedusa into the international media spotlight. As a student journalist dreaming of a job as a foreign correspondent, I went there with photographer Eva Barton to report (all photo credits below belong to Eva). On our return IContinue reading “Island of Lost Souls”
T.Y. Garner Writer 