Next Year Will Be Better Farzaneh Khojandi 'The author stood for the

'The author stood for the European Parliament on the slogan 'It's a big trough and I want to get my nose in it

“A script put together by Franz Kafka

and the long-awaited Lebanon: Poems of Love and War by Nadia Tuéni

essayist and surgeon

and The House on Arnus Square by Samar Attar

Next Year Will Be Better Farzaneh Khojandi 'The author stood for theThe 1950s are often seen as the grey decade, marred by austerity, rationing and conformity. True, but Next Year Will Be Better also tells of skiffle, jazz, CND, Teds, the Angry Young Men, new movements in art and literature. Meanwhile there was work to be had, on building sites and on holiday camps. And there was the joys of Eel Pie Island, Soho, hearing Louis Armstrong, playing jazz and being kissed by Allen Ginsberg. Only a dedicated sourpuss could