Ship of Fools: Short Stories from the Mental Health Front Line Mohammed Dib

Ship of Fools: Short Stories from the Mental Health Front Line Mohammed DibIt's not the patients you should worry about. It's the staff you should watch out for. Ship of Fools comprises twenty short stories, one for each year the author worked in the mental health system. These stories are fiction, but they are based on the real world of psychiatry and maximum security institutions. Written from the point of view of a staff member, the author lifts the lid on psychiatry, that secret domain. There are vivid accounts of life

Wheeling smoke

poets making waves – the well-known Mubarak Wassat

Fanning depicts early monk scribes who painted otters and griffins to illuminate their manuscripts

This gripping novel

An Absence of Ruins (1967)

Martin Wilmot Bennett and Nadia Benabid

I wrap the leftovers in ferns to be eaten cold tomorrow

teacher and founder of the National Jazz Archive

Gimme Shelter pits a young

Interview by Eskandar Habache

At the start of 1997

A Scene in Spring