Azúcar Fatima Mahmoud Winner of the Orange Prize

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

through ghostly meetings in pubs and train stations

Britain’s First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche

fear and hypocrisy

past and future

Azúcar Fatima Mahmoud Winner of the Orange PrizeAzcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the mythical Caribbean island of Fumaz where the revolutionary philosophy of peopleism just about keeps its flame alive against the forces of a USSRs inspired political bureaucracy and a stifling trade blockade from imperialist USAs. Yunior