A Handful of Sand Philip Hancock and I've become a fire

and I've become a fire monster

satirised and sometimes glorified

His has written other extreme travel books including Camp Shatila and Cool for Qat

the Daily Telegraph

‘the unhomely’

A Handful of Sand Philip Hancock and I've become a fireA Handful of Sand is a love story and an ode to lost opportunity. Now far from his homeland, the novel's protagonist looks back on his life, from his childhood, university days and first working experience to more intimate emotional events, making critical observations on human relationships and human existence. Interchanging with the chapters written in the narrators voice are those narrated by a woman. As her story progresses, we realise that she is