David Farrier is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Unsettled Narratives: the Pacific writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London. Routledge, 2007. 'Terms of hospitality: Adbulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43.3 (2008) '"The other is the neighbour": the limits of dignity in Caryl Philips's A Distant Shore', Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.4 (2008) '"The journey is the film is the journey": Michael Winterbottom's In This World', Research in Drama Education 13.2 (2008) 'Unwritable dwellings/unsettled texts: Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas and the Vailima House', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1 (2006) 'Gesturing towards the local: intimate histories in Anil's Ghost', Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41.1 (2005) 'Charting the "Amnesiac Atlantic": chiastic cartography and Caribbean epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (2003)