Ritual, 1969What are little girls made of? What will they become? Will they run away to the circus or become dressmakers, teachers or servants? From the playground to adulthood the path is beset with misunderstandings, missed dates and hidden traps for the unwary. This darkly gothic collection of stories explores the unsettling borderland between reality and the supernatural. Ranging from early twentieth century France to 1960s South Wales and contemporary

at the age of 67

Desperanto is the universal language of despair

2009) and Noteworthy: Images of Music (Seren

attempting to put it into the context of how he lives now

and Poetry Editor Amy Wack

Margaret Obank Naguib Mahfouz by Rasheed el-Enany

Ehin's work is rooted in Estonian folk tradition

Libyan author Ahmed Fagih talks with Margaret Obank

From the Irish sionnachuighim

do indeed dance like sunlight on the sweet water of the Caribbean or sunlight reflected from Guiana’s numerous waterways

and a bizarre chess set which is leading him

learned by the luckless and sung by the broken armies of losers