Mutual StrangersCollecting two decades of remembrances from Chinas premier literary caricaturist, these short stories offer bite sized misdeeds committed by Nanjings underground literati. Freed from family duties, the boys spend their nights freewheeling and trying their luck with pretty girls amid a haze of cigarette smoke and cheap beer. However, as the evening drags on, trouble brews and dates turn sour. Their only real solace is an unspoken camaraderie. After the

For sixty years he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it

Essays by Rowland Abiodun

Peter Clark Abdelrahman Munif and Iraq by Maher Jarrar

but also with humour and joy

Rachel McNicholl

UA Fanthorpe

Notebook in Hand presents tender lyrics and trenchant political meditations

Discover a whole new realm of botanical painting – the natural life forms that coexist with flowering plants

playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight

” Emma Thompson

After the world’s most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism

his life was dominated by the loss of Lizbietta and their child