LionessWhat does motherhood mean to someone who was taken from their mother? What does blackness mean to someone deprived of their culture? And how does someone reassemble themselves after being torn apart by racist and relationship abuse? Lioness brings together the broken pieces of a life lived always as other, celebrating the cracks and fissures in the same way that the Japanese art of kintsugi honours a damaged pot with gold lacquer, transforming its

Radwa Ashour was awarded the Constantine Cavafy International Prize for Literature

Ibrahim Muhawi

without a backward glance at anyone

As events unfold

s voyage into the unknown

At her pause a lady

He places a high value on the importance of secular values

He is persuaded to go on this dangerous journey by old flame – Sonia

ISBN: 9781908853295)

" Tom Chivers

almost magical stages that make us what we are – people who create people

in particular