The Man at the Corner TableRosie Shepperds debut poetry collection crackles with the unexpected. The voice is one of urban sophistication; a merciless charm that teases and tempts us with sensual evocations of food and place. The reader is surprised with tastes, scents, colours and textures. There is a winning insistence on detail offered with an irony that blends into satire. The poems adopt a deadly seriousness to the business of comedy. InIt isnt just the underfloor heating

and Lebanon: Poems of Love and War by Nadia Tuéni

Where the Rivers Meet is the first book-length study of his work in English

Thousands of childless couples in North America are increasingly turning to international adoption in order to become parents

his work has focused on the inner qualities of that experience

for consultative styles of leadership in contrast to the tendency to authoritarianism that has been a malign element in Guyanese politics

as told in Six Pounds Eight Ounces

Dreams Days Break Portfolio (with photographer David Gray)

"Notes wears its nerves on the surface

His work has appeared in over 100 books

Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri

he writes honestly about all the challenges

She lives in Nottingham and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Writing at UCE in Birmingham