Should We Fall BehindBBC Two Book Club Choice Between The Covers Jimmy Noone walks from one side of a sprawling city to the other, looking for Betwa, a friend he found and lost on the bustling city streets. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for lost lives colliding, exposing stories of tenderness, devotion, displacement and tragedy, and the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all, making the invisible, visible again.

May the best man win

The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan

Some borders are open

Signed ‘Shalash the Iraqi’

Hisham Matar

would have flinched at – but the political incorrectness of some of the views expressed goes along with a refreshing curiosity about Trinidadian society which is always

a study in remembrance and forgetting

beat-boxers and graffiti writers as urban oracles

unpublished poets from the Caribbean

connectedness and social transformation in modern everyday life

Alison Binney’s Mslexia prizewinning pamphlet Other Women’s Kitchens explored coming out and coming of age

since he fears that