HailmanLeanne Radojkovich's writing is full of crisp, precise details, and often contain a sting. In Hailman, the follow up to her 2017 debut First fox, the stories still have a dreamy, mythic feel, but are now rooted more firmly in the dusty suburbs and countryside of Aotearoa. In the title story, a child builds a snowman out of ice with her mum's friend Joyce and skirts round the edge of some adult truths. In 'Growing', a daughter visits her mother in the

to come together

the two women’s lives reveal unexpected connections and commonalities

Shabana Mahmood and many more in Once Upon a Time in Birmingham

resourceful and imaginative in exploring  those things which matter to her

East End Jewish Radicals is published is republished for a new audience perhaps unaware of this forgotten part of London’s history

nothing can be said to be true anymore

animal welfare: there are many reasons for becoming a vegan – or becoming more vegan – and in The Occasional Vegan Sarah Philpott shows how to do it

Christopher Reid’s most recent book is Six Bad Poets (Faber)

Suddenly everyone at school notices Tom and Raks: they have an identity

Michael O’Brien was notoriously falsely imprisoned for the murder of a Cardiff newsagent in 1988

But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone

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