Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia tea-breaks and sickies

tea-breaks and sickies

and are indebted to all the translators and copy-editors who made the issue possible

the battle for the Vulcan pub

John Pilger

Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia tea-breaks and sickiesBeryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor, Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr Cumberbatch the Chief Mourner. It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared", and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity