The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:Paperback

The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:PaperbackAlaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaas neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.

Viktor Krivulin

Unusually for a poetry collection

Boccaccio knelt Inside the still unfinished duomo

They are depicted in solitary glory on a page

and frames these poems within the constantly humane principles of Rasta and reggae

and smuggled out in his socks

and transformations

He raised his head up out of the clothes and slightly lifted the edge of the curtain

wife and a mother

Minhinnick's language

God’s Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 – 1939)

There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus - especially Sully