Bret Easton Ellis and the Other DogsAt a run down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly

Najwa Binshatwan

and their two sons

Diana McCaulay has lived in Jamaica her entire life

from a suburban drive-in to the Rodin museum

moving and powerful poem by one of the best-known of contemporary Italian poets who is also editor of Leone Editions

who evaded the law in part because of a popular ambivalence about crime

It takes the form of a dialogue between the author and his teenage daughter

2004) and Leaf

from Mahabharata

This sparkling pocket-epic spans the globe

critically acclaimed in the Independent and the Scotsman and a finalist in the Barnes & Noble Discover Awards in the US in 2006

As in a Dutch master ‘tablescape’