The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the loyal eyes of a white family’s childhood nurse
it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished second-hand shops
confesses doing seemingly unforgivable things
the London-based Lebanese co-founder of Al Saqi Books
Saadi Youssef – TRIBUTE to Mahdi Issa al-Saqr
Moving Impressions Connie Bensley The Orchid House describes aA collection of 12 essays written by academics, writers and thinkers, Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience celebrates the artistic and cultural works which have inspired, and continue to inspire, this volumes contributors as scholars, teachers, and writers. The chapters celebrate the moving power personal and political of works which engage with questions of identity, race, self and other relations, and sexuality. These highly personal