all this here, nowAnankes death rips a huge hole in the lives of their friends. A member of the group reflects on their shared mourning, remembering times past: childhood holidays and idyllic summers, as well as tensions and arguments. Ananke is a constant, enigmatic presence, yet remains mysterious and out of reach. When the numbness of trauma becomes too much to bear, the group impulsively takes a road trip to dig up Anankes ashes and bring them back to the sea by

Penelope Lively

In her visionary debut

drawing on Murray’s experiences as a long term – but part-time –resident in the English (or are they the Welsh

don’t weep

Little known in the West

He lives in Cairo

adapted from the novel The Heron

Making that so emphatically clear by means of fiction

Yasser Abd el-Hafez Excerpt from On the Occasion of Life

Mother of Flip-Flops is a queering of migrant experience

single handedly popularised the calypso in Britain

cricket and revolution