Fire ExitA lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking after his depressive mother, and staring across the water to the house in which his half Native daughter Elizabeth has grown up, unaware of his existence, her paternity hidden to protect her tribal status. Yet the cracks in the foundations of Elizabeths life are beginning to show, and Charles can see Elizabeth is

Through the microcosm of Coley we are shown the transformations brought about by slum clearance

but above all by the dozens of jazz and dance band musicians whose talents

A gripping novel about one of the last great taboos: a teacher-pupil relationship

On a personal note there are poems about my journey as a new parent and transitional aspects of my own life

and Jeffrey Pascual Yap

is so full and rich that plot becomes unnecessary

his published and unpublished poetry and essays covering travel

and Will Hayward investigates the long list of topics and flashpoints in the lockdown: PPE and other pressures on the NHS

As tensions rise at home and across the nation

s funeral with a family that she'd never met

tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told

his study of Sylvia Plath was published in 2001 by Faber