The Transmigration of BodiesA plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the citys underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage. Yuri Herreras novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto

Sensual and ecologically attentive

the day he rode on the footplate of the Mallard at 99mph from Doncaster to King’s Cross

insightful and enjoyable overview of what we can expect of Irish poetry in the coming times

one of the largest textile mills in England

was published by Penguin in 2008 (“An inspired piece of parody”

About the editor: Anne Joseph is a freelance feature writer and editor

Gathered over the course of decades

and also behind the lines

He writes of himself: as a boy making racehorses of his marbles

Vladimir Svetlov and Sergej Timofejev

Catherine Byron

and life-changing circumstances for very many people