Makeshift Robert Graves What was seen as “smartness”

What was seen as “smartness” in challenging a deeply hierarchical colonial society was often admired

Prize-winning Saudi Arabian author Raja Alem recounts her passion for reading as a child and the world authors she read

As they weave multiple sources from literature

Born in lowly circumstances in Newport

Makeshift Robert Graves What was seen as “smartness”A fascinating and long forgotten novel about the experiences of a German Jewish woman from the end of the First World War to the mid 1930s, her growing awareness of the rise of Nazism and her search for a home as a refugee. The story of the struggle to establish an identity in an unstable and intolerant world, told in an unforgettable voice. Makeshift traces the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and