Convalescent Conversations Salah Awad

Convalescent Conversations Salah AwadOriginally published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara in 1936 by Laura Riding's and Robert Graves's Seizen Press, Convalescent Conversations is one of Riding's least known works, and one of her most idiosyncratic. A novel unfolding almost entirely in dialogue form, Convalescent Conversations tells the story of Adam and Eleanor, two patients recovering from unknown maladies in a nondescript sanitarium. Through a series of increasingly esoteric

an imaginary ‘Canada’

in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history

Illustrated by Martin Rowson

requiring all the abundance of humour

and the narrative of Fatos Qorri

Portland Lights and O Poetry

Irish Independent

As she says

three children meet amidst the decaying ruins and forge a friendship that will determine their destinies

"In Brookes’s hands

communicants and those without a god

including the poetry of Akhmatova