The Pirate TreeThe gnarled tree on the hill sometimes turns into a pirate ship. A rope serves as an anchor, a sheet as a sail, and Sam is its fearless captain. But one day another sailor approaches, and hes not from Sams street. Can they find something more precious than diamonds and gold? Can they find . . . friendship?

politics and sport: these stories provide insight into the changing values of Wales and the world

Salvatore Quasimodo

Yassin Adnan: Seven poems

mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up

slapped faces

This collectible edition gathers in one beautifully crafted volume the three novels that have made Yuri Herrera’s reputation as one of the best and most revolutionary writers of the new millennium

Some are stitched into poems (or something like poems) while others speak to the present in bizarre new ways

Josephine Balmer: Further Books Received

I was so happy

Michael Gorman

its mystery and its soul-soothing qualities

campaigner for human rights and perpetrator of the greatest act of literary forgery in European history