KnivesA new direction for Robertson; this writing is sharp, humorous, and focuses on a variety of women living on the edge. Some of these stories have been published in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, one has, surreally, been transformed into a Manga comic. They are collected in book form for the first time and bring together a dozen tales inspired, as the author herself puts it by the consummate experts on the darker side of experience. Novelist

He writes regularly for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Quarterly

Sunday Night and Monday Morning features new short stories by 16 writers born or living in Nottinghamshire

He was recently a Visiting Professor at York University

He is the founding editor of the radical literary webzine

criss-cross

songs of exile and songs against exile

Mahdi Issa al-Saqr

the society's Hon

Ivan Teofilov

sweet in my throat

Banipal’s Guest Literature feature this issue comes from Germany: eight great authors at the top of their fields

into ancient churches and along almost forgotten road and tracks