Sharaf Lucy Burnett

Sharaf Lucy BurnettAn unabashed commercial thriller a fast moving tale of family strife, love, duty and vengeance that nonetheless takes on some controversial themes. Set in Saudi Arabia in the pre 9 11 era of the late 1980s the story deals with honour killing [Sharaf = honour] and the activities of the Saudi religious police. Sharaf is the first of three novels forming a family saga set in Arabia, America and Israel and chronicling the struggles and enmities of the

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The poems in Take This One to Bed explore the passions and tensions of how we live together – as neighbours