The Burning Mirror

The Burning Mirror is a mixture of the steamy and the spiritual, the subtle, the baroque and the brutal. The canvas is broad – everything from Glaswegian Asian gangsta stories to themes drawn from various Trans-Mediterranean cultures, from the philosophising of a spirit trapped in a bottle to the everyday tribulations of a Catholic evangelist, from a searing portrayal of brick-making villages in Pakistan to a Pointillist love story set amidst the late twentieth-century Balkan wars. A young man’s search across the Himalayan peaks for an incarnation of mystical love, a cycle of Celtic stories stretching across decades, Lata Mangeshkar and the night river in a Govan kebab house, lovers murdering their rivals…