PavilionWelcome to the Pleasure Dome. Pavilion is a celebration of the world of the English dandy, its gorgeous peacock feathers and fading glamour. Her cast of eccentric characters live somewhere on the coast of Greeneland, between the Brighton Pavilion and the ruined West Pier. They entertain their listeners at the bar, revealing the sad secrets behind the peep shows and arcades, cheap thrills and expensive mistakes. Deborah Tyler Bennett's previous books

Tahar Ben Jelloun talks to Pierrre Maury

to adapt Auden’s phrase

the Emirates and Yemen

Louis Aragon

The dark menace lurking in the best fairy tales is never far from the surface in most of these stories

Maybe it was hope that skewed his shaping

beautifully translated by Ilmar Lehtpere and selected from her most recent collection

on two paths: You

keened a note that held me closer

simpler life lived close to nature

Anita Jardine

There it may thrive or die