My Beautiful Bahrain

A collection of short stories and poetry about life and living in The Kingdom of Bahrain.

OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK!!

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With lots of fascinating personal 'life' stories, quite a few tourist-type information and fact based contributions, some wonderful poetry, an occasional piece of fiction (set on the island) and a mixture of other diverse and captivating prose, with fifty contributions from forty writers from fifteen countries (almost 300 pages), My Beautiful Bahrain is both varied and unique, and an undeniably indispensable guide for travellers and visitors to the island, as well as a 'must-read' book for people living here, doing business here, or just interested in what life is like living on this tiny, tiny island in the Arabian Gulf. 


The aims and goals of this book are to show the world that; firstly, there are a great many terrific and talented writers on the island that most definitely should be read and heard and secondly, for most people here, Bahrain is a wonderful place to live!

The call for contributions for this book was simple; to write about life here with no other - or hidden – agenda. The only conditions for contributing were that there was to be no political or religious criticism and writers must keep in mind the title: My Beautiful Bahrain. 

The book will be available as a hardcopy paperback shortly..

List of Chapters and Writers:


INTRODUCTION By Robin Barratt
THE BIRTH OF A PEARL By S. Krishna Kumar
A BACKWARD GLANCE By Maeve Kelynack Skinner
BAHRAIN; MINARETS AND PALM TREES By David Hollywood
THE JOURNEY HOME By Faridah Serajul Haq (fiction)
FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY By Zahra Zuhair
MY BEAUTIFUL BAHRAIN, MY BEAUTIFUL ANYWHERE By Nadia Muijrers
MY BEAUTIFUL BAHRAIN By DaVonda St.Clair
MY BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY, EXASPERATING, EXPATRIATE BAHRAIN By Rohini Sunderam
LAND OF THE LIVING By Omar Ahmed
SNAPSHOTS FROM AN ISLAND By Steve Royston
IMAGES OF MY BELOVED BAHRAIN By Lillian Mills
BAHRAIN - ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONS By Jim Scalise
NEW BEGINNINGS By Bron Vanzino
BAHRAIN, A CULINARY OASIS By Anita Menon and Namit Bhatia
PEARLS By Aaron Maree (fiction)
EAST, WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH By Zahra Zuhair
THE LITTLE PEARL MERCHANT By Catherine Purchase (Fiction)
THIS LAND IS MINE By David Hollywood
VISITING OLD BAHRAIN By Shauna Nearing Loej
THE BAKER OF MANAMA By Ana Corradini Boreland
THE TWO SEAS By Fatima Dincsoy
ALI AND THE HUMMER By Eva L. Burns (Fiction)
BEAUTIFUL BAHRAIN By Fahad Ali
PROTECTION By Joanne Jones
BAHRAIN IS THE BEST By Heera Nawaz
HIJAB AND TRADITIONAL DRESS By Mary Coons
BOKHARA OR BUST By Maeve Kelynack Skinner
LOVE’S GIFT By Madhavi Tiwary
MY PEARL By Lillian Mills
HOORA By Hameed Al Qaed
THE EMBRACE By David Hollywood
THE VILLAGE CLOCK, A'ALI By Lorraine Charlesworth
THE MYSTERY OF BAHRAIN By Bron Vanzino
THE ARAB HORSE By Lorraine Charlesworth
MY BAHRAIN MY HOME By Hasina Patel
MANAMA SUQ - A CULTURAL FEAST FOR THE SENSES By Mary Coons
THE RARE BIRD OF BAHRAIN By Maeve Kelynack Skinner
SAILORS COME, SAILORS GO By Phari Poitier
HOW THE PEARL GOT ITS LUSTRE By Nawf Al Basam (fiction)
GROWING UP IN BAHRAIN By Dilraz Kunnummal
STRANGE PLACE By Osama Arshad
SAAR SURRENDERS ITS SECRETS By Maeve Kelynack Skinner in conversation with Dr Robert Killic
BREATHING LESSONS By B.M.Engel (fiction)
BAHRAIN By Kathleen Dodd
A NEWBIE! By Pooja Rajpal Kasala
MY PRINCE, MY PRINCESS By Natasha Khan (fiction)
PEARL EPIPHANIES By Bron Vanzino
MEMORIES OF MY LIFE IN BAHRAIN By 'Krazy' Kevin Howarth

LAST RANDOM THOUGHTS By DaVonda St.Clair

 

Cover image Ella Prakash

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Book Specs

Cover price: 5BD

Format: Paperback

Colour cover

Size: 200mm x 130mm

Pages: 340

ISBN: 978-99901-37-47-7 

Printed by Miracle Publishing

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