Godzilla and the Song Bird Michael SeeneySet in the period before and through the Bangladeshi war of independence, this novel has at its heart the continuing friendship between three boys with a love of cinema, whose loyalty into adulthood has surprising outcomes. Bulbul, the central character, is a journalist who witnesses and experiences the clash between individual struggles for meaning in a world torn apart by war, genocide and religious exclusions.
Samuel Shimon: The Hedgehog – a chapter from an autobiographical novel
and including many thought-provoking fiction from Sudan
Nightmares brings a light to our interactions in an ailing world and heralds the arrival of a unique new voice in fiction
an early Quaker who incurred the bigotry and wrath of the governor of Massachusetts
Art in the Cathedral
where she ends up sewing a voodoo doll to take revenge on a molesting teacher
Golala Nouri – Poem Are you sure you want to delete
and became a German-language poet as linguistically inventive and idiosyncratic as his friend Paul Celan – who was even more multilingual by circumstance
to the Christmas shop in June
the two women consider how art making reflects the kind of imagination of how one might live in the world
These ‘requested poems’ have been brought together for Here’s Looking at You Kid
adventuresome and wry – an unmissable and irrepressible debut
