Scott McCulloch

Male friendship becomes violent on the road in Vijay Khurana’s debut novel.

As Syria enters its sixth year of civil war, how does the proximity of this monstrous conflict affect its already traumatised neighbour? We live our death. This half-death is our triumph. – Mahmoud Darwish The air barely moves. Piles of garbage wrap around a street corner. I have rarely seen so many weapons or military […]

1. We drive around the lake where my mother had almost drowned and her mother had to come wading out in her apron to save her. Later her mother left her tied up in a potato sack out on the doorstep. The neighbours saw the bag wriggling on the driveway and took the little girl […]