The Forger's InkIts the 1970s, and a mysterious woman has a cache of letters to sell. They claim to tell the story of the death of Fanny Imlay, half sister of Mary Shelley and daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft. Did Fanny really commit suicide in an inn in Swansea in 1816, as historians thought? The letters instead suggest a faked death and an escape from Fannys fraught family life. It could have been an independence of which Fannys mother would have been proud. But the

This new selection of short

The fascinating intricacies of their lives are seen from multiple viewpoints as an interwoven series of scenes unfold

' As an antidote to a future that 'may be very wrong

Teenage rivalry

It is rendered into English by the translator Bryar Bajalan working with Al-Raddi’s friend and fellow poet Shook

today I am haunted by a memory

In this new book his praise of the achievements of one figure is necessarily tempered by a curt frustration at the lives not lived as a result of that achievement

now stand easy

art and heritage of the cathedral from Roman times to the twenty-first century

Thomas Klein

Our theme is movement

In one perfectly-staged scene after another