Mordechai's Moustache & His Wife's CatMahmoud Shukairs first major publication in English translation enthralls, surprises and shocks as one of the worlds most original of storytellers excels in exposing the surreal moments in the ordinary and the mundane, the limits of human frustration and patience, and the intricacies of tiny daily obsessive practices. Brimming with humour that ranges from the funny and the farcical, to satire and black comedy, with a painters eye for colour and

The Fugitive Three (Cinnamon Press

Eileen Jones (editor) lives in Tynedale

C Jacobs ('In Early Spring')

translated by Anna Crowe

Unlike their predecessors who were concerned with political themes

of the Inquisition's

the keel’s blue imagination covered in brush and rushes

you don't have to be addicted to gefilte fish and salt beef to enjoy this anthology of 2001

Samuel Shimon interviews the Tunisian author

With unsparing self-analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years

revolution and hope

Allan Jackdaw