When Reading Really RockedRelive the decade when Reading's music scene turned itself up to 11 and really started to rock. This hugely well informed and entertaining account of live music in Reading between 1966 and 1976 charts the journey from the emergence of psychedelia to the dawn of punk, and brings into focus the many musicians and bands from The Amboy Dukes to The Who that played at venues around the town. Read about the early years of the Reading Festival, lost and much

as in the stories Pockets Full of Stones or Nosedive

Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths

to Jokha al-Harth

Latin American dictadura and the mass-executions by the SS of Soviet Jews

Anna Lewis

She observes the Caribbean’s foods and flora with exactness

Away from the fighting

Barnaby Tidman

not least of which is: where do we run to when there’s nowhere left to run

Born in St

They rose to a passionate renewal

the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard