She Wrote the Songs Abdel Aziz Gharmoul The Little Giant is a

The Little Giant is a light-hearted

Anne Chambers: Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh

strongly visual and beautifully structured… powerful

Ramgolall’s world begins to fall apart

The Foreword by the editor James Knox Whittet

She Wrote the Songs Abdel Aziz Gharmoul The Little Giant is aParlour songs were the pop hits of the Victorian era and some of the biggest hit makers of the day were women. Barred from positions in universities, cathedrals and orchestras, this intimate, home based musical genre was their only outlet. Sadly, their extraordinary contribution has largely been forgotten, overlooked by historians and marginalised in the timeline of music. Now, however, singer Patricia Hammond is putting the record or, rather, the