Crossing EmbersWidowed at a young age, Zahra finds herself being forced into a hasty marriage to her cousin. Having been conditioned by her family and society to perennially obey the societys diktats, taking destiny into her own hands seems nigh impossible. Her radical decision to do so takes her on the journey of discovery from an Omani village perched atop a mountain to the East African coast. But of more importance than her physical journey through space is her

The One Who Swears You Can't Start Over is both an elegiac record of losses and a testimony to our collective human determination to begin again

however in pain

’ says Naz

and about caring for somebody who is

Sheenagh Pugh

with an excerpt from his latest work The Dark Side of Love

Muzaffar al-Nawwab

whether writing about truck drivers or nurses

and radio stations broadcast unmissable local music programmes

their mother is white

Intensely imaginative

in stanzas echoing the musical scale