The Large Door Derek Bickerton

The Large Door Derek BickertonAn acid sharp novella of longing and language, in which the past comes up hard against the present, from Jonathan Gibbs, acclaimed author of Randall, or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar, 2014): It was not the only painting in the room, but it was the one that drew the eye. It was a Golden Age interior, the like of which you might see a dozen times in the Rijksmuseum, Jenny guessed, and once or twice in any gallery in Europe or America with a half

whatever kind of family brought them up

Peter Finch

Clarke was born in Barbados in 1934 in a poor single parent family with an absent father

The stories draw deeply from the Tyneside estate of Almond’s childhood

of continuing environmental degradation

Ahmed al-Fagih

takes the reader on a perverse and darkly humorous trip

Fascinated by the “otherness” of things

Is it possible to resist playing on this poet’s surname

Refugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines

County Tipperary

Like The Dead of Mametz before it