A daring, funny and innovative exploration of the stories hidden inside photographs. Sixteen short lyrical pieces draw meaning and stories from captured moments in time based on images from the author's childhood in South Africa and adolescence in Israel. Snapshots of The Boy is a meditation on love, memory and sexual awakening, and a riff on the lasting presence of the boy in the life of the grown man. (A limited edition chapbook.)
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A man sets out to visit the poet Isaac Rosenberg’s grave just as his relationship back home in London is falling apart. Travelling by train through Northern France, getting lost in the heavy rain outside Arras trying to locate the cemetery, the man tells his own story and the story of Rosenberg’s last days through a series of anecdotes, impressions and thoughts. This story is an exploration of infidelity and allegiance, to the living and to the dead. Isaac Rosenberg’s Journey to Arras is an elegiac prose poem, homage to a visionary poet and a meditation on the nature of war and hope. Click on the book cover to read more and order a copy.
A Year of Two Summers won an Arts Council of England Writers Award in 2004 when it was still a work in progress. Five Leaves published the collection a year The stories travel between South Africa, Israel, New York, LA, and London. They are about people trying to make sense of their past, and create new lives in new lands.
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An affair between two South African men in London begins in an internet chatroom and takes them further into love than either could have imagined. A disturbingly honest and intensely erotic work, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of the city. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator reads Plato, sits on park benches, and feeds his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing. Click on the book cover to read more and order a copy.
