Commonworld

Guest edited by Lucy Hannah

Commonworld

Lucy Hannah

“One of the many joys of reading is that of being transported to another world, far from our own, In this edition, writers explore the messy afterlife of colonialism, and grapple with how to shape our identity in today’s Commonworld.”

Kopuwai

Stefanie Seddon

“You never lose the view you grow up with. Whether it’s a windswept mountain or the sea or a tower block, the images that frame your childhood stay with you.”

The green room

Jacob Ross

“This novel deserved the prize: She handed it to Catriona: thick, mango-yellow cover, an image of the curled petal of a hibiscus flower in free-fall.”

Raising the dead

Nadifa Mohamed

“If a tombstone is a work of literature, what does it mean if it can only tell you that the body that lies beneath is unknown?”

The family

Romesh Gunesekera

“This hat has travelled from Russia to Afghanistan. It belonged to the Tsar’s cousin. During the Bolshevik revolution his valet escaped with it.”

Fish out of two waters

Monique Roffey

“Being a hybrid, a creole, has given me the gift of double sight, a double take from the outside, and this goes both ways.”

A common world

Gillian Slovo & Kamila Shamsie

“There is a common world, and one of the things we have in common at the moment is a lot of divisions, but literature has always existed in those moments and through those moments.”

Our world

Robert Huggins

Robert Huggins’s photos remind us that literature lives like people everywhere in the world.
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