Gabriel's Angel

It has shades of the quirky fantastical in the style of Miyazaki’s (Studio Ghibli) animated films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle (originally a novel by Diana Wynne Jones)

Isambard Smith’s homicidal alien friend

No bells and whistles

The trajectory of the novel – of becoming part of the evolutionary process

which rapidly sold out

a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade

through the mid-century and revolutionary period

but I shall always carry some notes of your music

Fawzi Karim Selected Poems

As antagonisms and intimacies converge

hitch-hiking

You just do everything you can for them