Littoral by Nicholas Murray Sherko Bekas Mixing Mehri's own family's experience

Mixing Mehri's own family's experience with the history and stories of many others

prodigies and almost always women – became scapegoats

This assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private

Juan champions the voiceless in his work

its wider causes and consequences

Littoral by Nicholas Murray Sherko Bekas Mixing Mehri's own family's experienceThe 'bleak and blasty' sands of Crosby Beach provide the stage for a cast of mysterious and sometimes sinister figures: scavengers and shrimpers, raucous boys, a lonely priest and a disillusioned soldier, with the steely waters of the Mersey, passing ships, and the play of sunlight on distant hills an ever restless backdrop. In these vivid dramas Nicholas Murray reveals to us the bitter sweetness of departure and return to a place known with the