The LayersThe Layers is the debut novel from Stephen Reynolds, exploring how our identity is shaped by our relationships. The anonymous protagonist recounts his life story, showing us how the people he has loved his parents, sister, grandfather, best friend, and partner have all helped to form who he is. He is a different version of himself with each loved one, versions which combine to make up a whole person. However, as the book goes on and the protagonist

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Anne Tannam

Mohammed Khudayyir

Born in the impoverished industrial valleys of south Wales

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A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love

There’s an excerpt from Lebananese author Alawiyah Sobh’s acclaimed novel Dunya

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In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure

Griffiths approaches serious subjects - eating disorders

She died in Dominica in 1986