52 Factory LaneYoull live out your lives in a foreign country, Gl is warned. But the whole world is foreign when youre far from your loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of long awaited letters, night time telephone calls and blissful summers back home. The years of hard work will flow like water before her house in Turkey is built and she can return. Until then, there will be fireworks, young love, and the cassette tapes of the summer played on

delightful and wry

Mallarmé and Verlaine

the novel follows the disintegration and renewal of a marriage

child-speak

of John Clare

Will it build again

The IRON Book of Tree Poetry

From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium

Brought up by his grandparents

Thousands of people who had survived the attacks in both Anfal and Halabja but had been mildly affected by the gas later died from cancer and other diseases

John Menaghan

which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature