Inner-City Blues
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 by Norman Samuda-Smith
Inner-City Blues is based within the back-drop of inner-city Small Heath Birmingham during the mid 1970’s and is the long-awaited sequel to Norman Samuda-Smith’s ground breaking first novel Bad Friday.
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When Peter is brutally assaulted after leaving a ‘blues party’ in the early hours of Sunday morning, robbed of his hustling money, face down, bleeding and motionless, the attack [...]
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Blackheath Books edition of Beat the Dust
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 by Sean McGahey
The uber trendy BTD has hooked up with Blackheath Books this month for a special collaborative issue of the litzine. In the October edition they have the latest work from a selection of Blackheath’s authors – poetry from Billy Childish, Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, Darran Anderson, Miles J Bell and Garrie Fletcher, plus fiction from Joseph [...]
Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Sean McGahey
A while ago I was sent a copy of “Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan” the book blurb goes something like this “…a debut collection that combines a genuine poetic originality with a startling no bullshit clarity. This is a voice born out of a life lived on the extreme peripheries of society”.
Jenni Fagan
To be honest [...]
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