Islamic Art Meets British Flowers Amal Nawwar The Orchid House was republished

The Orchid House was republished by Virago Press in 1982 for Virago Modern Classic

Between them are Booker prize winners

entreats the reader to return

it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers

growth and death

Islamic Art Meets British Flowers Amal Nawwar The Orchid House was republishedHadil Tamim was born in Al Yarmouk Refugee Camp south of Damascus, Syria. Trained in ceramic and Islamic decorative art, for the last two decades she has been living in Reading, where she has turned to her art to create a bridge between two homes and two cultures. Her artworks draw on the architectural forms of the buildings in Reading for structure and colour and the flowers found in and around the town for the arabesque. With excerpts from her