Heart Lamp: Selected Stories: Winner of the International Booker Prize Alawiya Sobh

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories: Winner of the International Booker Prize Alawiya SobhIn the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards. A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English

he finds a continent in the turbulent throes of attempting to escape a colonial past

Three years in the making

With dark twists and intense themes

These poems have their own music

The Guardian and Scotland on Sunday

loss growing up mixed-race in Newport

learning to speak Bird at night school

'the mucus of slugs'

a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family

Following her acclaimed debut Don’t Try This at Home

The Duke looks out from his castle