Blue Lorries

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We watch as Nada becomes steadily politicised, from relishing “the twofold pleasures of speaking my mind and outwitting my mother” to engaging as a young student then mature adult in debates and dissent against social iniquity and government decrees. In Oleander, Jacaranda, Penelope Lively's account of the first 12 years of her life in Egypt in the 1930s and early 1940s, Cairo is described as "a place of cultural confusion – I was battered throughout my childhood with nationalities and allegiances".

Some sessions are run as part of the programme of supercar driving days at a race track, others are provided by professional truck driver schools as a taster experience for those who just want to 'have a go'.Moving, uplifting, and deeply human, Radwa Ashour’s masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life of activism and quiet defiance. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist with a passing resemblance to President Nasser, in prison.

Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and regrets, Nada's story grows into the story of Egypt's many celebrated activists such as Arwa and Siham. Tescos and Sommerfield are the worst, resolutely keeping their speed so low on main (trunk) roads that I'm sure that must give them some perverse pleasure in trying to get the longest queue of cars behind them ever seen. Through her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of protest--"anarchism," "Trotskyism," communism"--and, one summer in Paris, she discovers the '68 movement and her first love. As long as your Into The Blue voucher is still valid, you can exchange it using our dedicated on-line exchange portal. Some offer a driver briefing, others do all the safety talk and training whilst you're in the lorry.A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, she holds a PhD in African-American literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

A fully-loaded lorry may not be the fastest when it comes to acceleration, but they are the powerful workhorses of the road. I just do it for the money,then go home and forget all about what I for a living, same as being in the RAF really. Blue Lorries, Radwa Ashour's beguiling and hard-hitting new novel, showcases the author's native Cairo from the 1950s to 2003.With several different truck driving experience centres around the UK, there should be a venue near to you. Surely it would be wise to add the letters S, E and W into the lorry symbols for those who can't easily tell the colours apart.