Author Archives: simonmandrake

A Short Story by Nasir Ali Hussain In late March 1979 my friend Omar and myself had gone on a family holiday to Pakistan. Our parents were both from Lahore and after a couple of weeks out there we decided to take a break from our parents and extended family in Lahore. We were both twentyContinue reading “If You Ever Go There”

A short film written and directed by Simon Downham-Knight I wrote and directed Mano a Mano back in 2010. Like a lot of my work, its roots are planted firmly in reality and in this film’s case, it was something that happened to me in the late 1980s, when I was a teenager. I leftContinue reading “Mano a Mano”