Invasion of the Spirit PeopleJuan Pablo Villaloboss fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer absurdity. In an unnamed city, colonised by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gastn makes his living selling exotic vegetables to eateries around the city. He has a dog called Kitten, whos been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a good friend

with introduction by Mona Zaki

They are promised that they will be freed at dawn

a brutal rebel officer seems determined to ruin his entire family

May my warm fur

often in the name of love and always in a language that (pounding Pound) 'hath 'ham' innit

Ono's stories teeter on the edge of something unsayable

It includes the Mass Declamations On Guard for Spain

But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone

She lives in London and works as a freelance writer

the horse whose rider is War

Malika Moustadraf (1963–2006) A short story A Mere Difference

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