Brick Dust Huw Edwards

Brick Dust Huw EdwardsThis sprawling saga of family and class is told by an enigmatic narrator, a hoarder of documents, who is trying to lay out a history of the Nacullian family. As the jumble of their lives is pieced together we witness them migrate, marry, work up library fines, die, build bridges and Morris dance. Brick Dust is a comedic tale about the struggle to make something solid, when all we have is dust.

’ In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young

Atlantic (Cinnamon Press

a song-book of love and hate

’ wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008)

but perfectly pitched for readers aged 9 – 11

only to find themselves trapped in cruel

they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival

it can ‘glorify our rulers or it can dissect them

Destiny in my hands

a collection of her radio plays

older than Dante when he toured Hell

even as it falls …