Out of EarthThis remarkable Brazilian novel has been garlanded with multiple awards and accolades since its initial publication, as Desesterro: the prestigious Sesc Prize for Literature, the Machado de Assis award and the Jabuti award. The story follows four generations of female characters as they navigate the hardships of life in the parched landscape of the Brazilian serto. Male figures are peripheral, but are also revealed as the origin of much of the

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are also a heartfelt defense of the right of the Estonian language to exist and flourish in our increasingly anglicised world

Into the spider’s web…

Hassan Ben Othman: Excerpt from the novel Promosport

extinguishing and kindling

plus a frontispiece portrait by William Johnstone and a song-setting by Ronald Stevenson

In this dystopian

Ranging between Wales

Orkney is certainly a welcome change of scene from Bermondsey

seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon

Awad Nasir

and finally into the wide river of an open-ended spiritual question