The Madman in this HouseIshaq Imruh Bakaris fourth collection begins with the story of the Negro of Banyoles, whose stuffed remains were displayed in European museums for nearly 170 years, and ends with a celebration of the life and music of the Jamaican jazz musician Coleridge Goode. In between, the book explores the histories, geographies and the ironic impossibility of being black in our time. From Grenfell, Guantanamo and Gaza, to the monsters of empire and neoliberalism

"Tense with dark wit and wild originality

Murnane creates sensitive portraits of intimate relationships – with parents

One of these draws analogies between the experience of the native American Kiowas and the Irish experience of similar injustice and dispossession

Says she was born the day she reached Wellington harbour with papers stating she was a ten-year-old Polish orphan

riddles and unlikely stories about the strange

encountering stunning landscapes

individual letters and words were sold

’  Harry Clifton ‘about:blank crystallizes Adam Wyeth’s grasp of the theatrical power of language

rustling cattle

Banipal 25 presents works by two prominent Libyan authors – the novelist Ibrahim al-Koni with an excerpt from the intriguing and challenging desert narrative The Seven Veils of Seth

blues and gospel-drenched New Orleans

which eventually led him to a spell in Baghdad