Sugar HallIts Easter 1955 and as Lilia scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows, and the rust from the locks, but there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach. Mouldering in the English border countryside the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret, and as Britain waits for its last hanging, Lilia and her children must confront a history that has been buried but not forgotten. Based on the stories

translated into Scots

making critical observations on human relationships and human existence

Raphael Cohen

His most recent poetry collection is Touchstones (Salmon

It's masterly

In the late 1990s

hugely influential among younger generations of Arab poets through his way of writing

Abigail Zammit's own voice discovers an excoriating yet redemptive timbre

My eyes fell

These are stories told with real heart from writers emerging from the margins in style

the book is also the story about how it was written

too drunk to let things be’