Postcard from Bishkek

The Kyrgyz writer Murza Gaparov was born into a farming family on 22nd March, 1936, in the village of Noygut in the Nookat district of the Osh oblast. Gaparov was a versatile author, he was a novelist, playwright and screenwriter.  He was apparently renowned as a master of the short story and wrote many stories […]

It’s a long time since I have been back to Britain … but one of the things on my “To Do” whenever I did was to go and visit the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road in Central London. For many years, one of the problems of life in Bishkek was the fact that it […]