Raising Sparks Raising Sparks:Paperback

Raising Sparks Raising Sparks:PaperbackMalka grows up in the Old City of Jerusalem in the confines of the Ultra orthodox Jewish community. Meandering through the narrow streets she finds herself at the door of one of the city's most renowned and reclusive mystics and discovers her father's top rabbinical student, Russian immigrant Moshe studying forbidden Kabbalistic texts. She has a disturbing vision of a tree of prayers growing up inside the house, and the prayers all seem to be talking

Here is a wide-ranging poetic response to the many offshore locales and civilisations scattered round our islands

series of poems that use a single line from a contemporary poet

They said I couldn't change the world

profits in the boardrooms and wage-cuts on the cold shop-floor

Justin David

and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4

This dark and lyrical debut novel confronts a claustrophobic rural community caught up in the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world

He has also written three novels (two published and one forthcoming)

Other beings feature as metaphors

The floor-vendors and stallholders were stampeding out of the market gates at the side and front entrances

Even the briefest phrase can be radiant with the possibilities of 'the

delighting and moving in equal measure