Hostages of MemoryIn the Syrian Turkish borderlands, Khatoune searches for a home for their family. As her sons Alo and Ahme attempt to build a life for themselves, they know little about the secrets that weigh down their family history, or the troubles that the future has in store for them. So unfolds a tale of tragedy, humour, and occasionally joy; a tale spanning three generations that offers us an earthy glimpse into the lives of the people who have made this land

poetry and hip hop are a stimulus for philosophical reflection and introspection

Caldwell is an immensely sensitive poet with a keen sense of both the poignancy and exuberance of life and its tiny moments

There's fiction from: Zakaria Tamer

assenting to Auden's dictum on the key shaping of the adult by the things to which one's love is firstly and voluntarily drawn

and claim his just rewards

Shelf Life

Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts increased their campaign against the Jewish community

Contemporary Dutch Poets series ‘Tumultuous work

Andre Bagoo is the real deal as an essayist in that he asks interesting questions (was there an alternative to the independence that Trinidad sought and gained in 1962

Written according to its own dictum

Callaghan was born in 1948 and grew up in County Dublin

including the children’s book I Saw Your Face and Hope