Our Daily Bread Andrea CohenOur Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevi shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at
600 volunteers who signed up to the British West Indian Regiment remain largely unknown
Wild Woman is an anti-love story
on the concept of influence - we might struggle to recognise
Rohlehr both confronts an existential void and records the increments of creativity and achievement that offer future hope
The poems are in turn sensual
Maria Stepanova’s ‘weird ballads’
keeping a weather eye out for telling detail
PEN International
Sophia Mello Breyner
We are very proud of this first collection from Leon
that tell ‘how our hurts come down… Hard and without warning’
an acute empathy with troubled childhoods and adolescence offers adult readers a rewarding reconnection with the turbulence of earlier selves