SalvageA short break in a shoreline cottage is an ideal place to struggle with your demons. For Elly and Martin it is the chance to forget their hasty exit from Paradise following classroom scandal. But she makes a life changing find on the tideline, a diamond dress ring with finger bones still attached. Scroll back a few months and at Martins place of work a Chester hospital we meet new nurse Hayley. Young, gorgeous; she is a player, and totally turned off

‘Keep on Keeping On’

and for whom there is no compassion

and questioning

MPT 3/11 concentrates on that essential act

Ritual Soup and Other Liquids

Elena Shvarts

David Cooke (2) on Matthew Sweeney

New editions of Nawal el Saadawi’s The Hidden Face of Eve

Shortlisted for the T

Dances with Vowels has a heart that beats for its native North East

Tribute to novelist Hani al-Raheb

he can still hear birds chirping in his "inner hedges"