29 LocksComing of age novel set in contemporary London and Hertfordshire. Fifteen year old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St Lucian father and a drug addicted English mother. Growing up in dire poverty in Hackney, East London, his life is shaped by casual violence, gang initiation, drug dealing and knife crime. When Donnys bored, rich, white girlfriend Zoe is offered a dubious modelling audition, the couple borrow a barge and navigate the 29

Amid the last

Hopeful and hopeless

quiet days and more adventurous moments – including the day he confronted Robert Maxwell in his Oxford office for overdue translation fees

Herman Melville’s Mardi

this empowering collection of creators and innovators

A tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it

and insights gained from

The result is often a thrilling tension of opposites: a romance that teeters on the brink of fulfilment

He also looks at how the epidemic was reported

excellent photographs

But as well as being an agonising parable of separation and betrayal

As a woman writing in modern day Turkey