Granny Albyn's Complaint Yi Sha

Granny Albyn's Complaint Yi ShaIt is the 1st of May, and we are among the fair field full of folk gathered on Glasgow Green to celebrate May Day. On every side are Chartists and Suffragettes, trades unionists and Communists, tourists and film crews, artists and asylum seekers, the homesick and the homeless, the long time dead and the yet to be born. Helen Crawfurd and John Maclean are here, so are Edwin Muir, Ronald Stevenson and Edwin Morgan, Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Robeson and

Words like trout

This is her second novel

the Czech Republic

a quality that lifted him from the ranks of thirties dance band players - a fascinating book

the Angry Young Men

and as a man with a life-long commitment to justice and human rights

Later she travelled to Europe and the USSR

Shakira’s Picture and Mordechai’s Moustaches and his Wife’s Cats

from mainstream publishers to the smaller presses – sympathetic

She also wrote two autobiographical works Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness in which she wrote movingly and with dignity about the onset of epilepsy and her search for God

Her icy breath thinned

From the Dylan Thomas classic