St Ann's, The Final Chapter Neil Jordan

St Ann's, The Final Chapter Neil JordanIn the late 1960s St Anns, an area of Nottingham, was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pubs, churches and businesses. Most of the houses were built in the mid 1800s and of very poor quality, having no internal toilets or bathrooms, poor sanitation and problems with damp. The process of demolition meant that upwards of 30,000 people had to be rehoused in different parts of the city. What St Anns did have was a

and the often hostile conditions of life in post War Britain

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental

Be Manzini

They are pioneers

and Irish and Beat literature

while also questioning whether a literary world exists and

Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away the money he sends and being the cause of their mother’s worsening health

” – Macdara Woods

Robert Minhinnick's world is a shrinking one

Wronged suitors

such as self-deprecating irony and stylistic aplomb

as you might expect