It Was an Accident'Second in the Nicky Burkett series. Authentic crime on the streets of Walthamstow' Nicky Burkett still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released onto the streets of Walthamstow and you'd think they'd leave him alone. All he wants is a quiet pint, a pattie on the market and a quick one on the settee. But trouble follows him around. He wants to go straight. Noreen wants him to go straight. He even takes a test for her He is beaten

Now retired

poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly across a landscape of abandoned council estates

Like many translations

opened his eyes

Designed and printed by Tony Ward at the Arc & Throstle Press

and Studying Film (Arnold)

sophisticated and armed to the teeth and they’re after Suzy’s blood

Graffiti for Hard Hearts 0-946407-84-3 64 pp £5

Naguib Mahfouz Excerpts from Morning and Evening Talk

Unfortunately

disease and cruelty

Stephen Dobyns