Secret ShelterVisceral, strongly visual and beautifully structured powerful, quirky characters and a great sense of place. Andrew Taylor A sequel to Rob Gittins hard hitting first crime thriller, Gimme Shelter, based on the witness protection service, Secret Shelter continues the story of witness protection officer, Ros Gilet. For most people, the past is history. For Gilet, its a threat. And its a threat thats just become all too active as a copycat killing brings

unlike the Mobley book

a short story translated by Stefan Tobler

George Jowett

the poet recalls the passage by train of Basque shepherds to their new holdings in another Idaho poem

For Summer reading

Lutfiyya Dulaimi – An excerpt from Hayat’s Garden

Cilydd enlists his cousin

Earl Lovelace was born in 13 July 1935

the ghosts of a multicultural city moving through banks and brothels

from his childhood

courageous”

In 2011 Nancy Charley spent six weeks in a little blue beach hut on Tankerton Slopes