A corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all existence…A young journalist struggles over the obituary of a
In Thirteen Months of Sunrise - the first major translated collection by a Sudanese woman writer - Rania Mamoun expertly blends the real and imagined to create an intimate portrait of life in Sudan to
Riga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that time spent under Soviet rule. Despite this, it has established its
Tbilisi is the largest city and capital of Georgia, with a population of more than 1.5 million people. Situated at the boundary between Europe and Asia, this fiercely independent city is home to diffe
M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres – horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing – just as his characters occupy t
Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates
A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallizes around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them i
