Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker PrizeIn November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroixs fictional

excerpt from new novel

Annie Katchinska

As with Southwell's poem there is a fine balance between dread and hope

your mother were dead

as he explains the new and “extraordinary relationship between Arab literature and the European reader”

and three short stories from Nihad Sirees

sometimes almost unbearably close

Farrar Straus and Giroux 2015)

The book reviews include novels that range from The Book of Khalid

Marlo is landed with this a strange but compassionate arrangement

of the natural and the transnatural

especially at Christmas