Black and White Sands Ahmed Fagih

Black and White Sands Ahmed FagihElma Napiers remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with the wild Caribbean island of Dominica. It began in 1932 when she turned her back on Londons high society to build a home in Calibishie, a remote village on Dominicas north coast. There are tales of literary house parties, of war and death, smugglers and servants and, above all, of stories inspired by her political life as the only woman in a colonial parliament. She writes deftly about the

a precious state of mind

"In the best of these poems Micheal Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea

a motto associated with the Japanese tea ceremony

The epistolary poems are composed in terza rima in tetrameter lines

in north Wales

Reem Ghanyem

Her short stories

Cathedral Glass

His previous books include Fascism

In this collection Yann Lovelock introduces us to six poets

and it is the south Herefordshire borderlands

on Tyneside