The Accidental ImmigrantsWhat happens when you suddenly find yourself an unwanted foreigner? Tess and Arlo have made a happy life on St Mira. But the island is not immune to the forces reshaping the world. When a far right government surges to power, foreigners are their first target. It's time for Tess and Arlo to leave. But what if it's too late? The Accidental Immigrants is political fiction based on the facts of the years since Brexit: the fallout from the referendum, the

philosophical

the mischievous boy exposes the conditions of life in Ireland through various manifestations - in James Joyce

out of the blue

these “notes” show us childhood at its most elemental: a laboratory of life in which strangeness

Vivid character portraits of Aunt Alice and Cousin Sidney sit next to tributes to poet predecessors

Only one man has the qualities needed to take on a job this dangerous – Captain Isambard Smith

Lewis Freedman has heretically rewritten the work of his ancestors to create an annotated index of this inherited structure

These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children

We witness grief overcoming the mind and body

Andrew Motion

they bear witness against the forces of imperial slaughter

I have a love of history and am passionate about rediscovering forgotten voices