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Tehran is Iran's most secular and liberal city. It is a city that is so much more than your usual chaotic maze of concrete and traffic jams thick with air pollution. This is the beating heart of Iran, a creative tour de force and the place to be to get a handle on modern Iran and what its future ...

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to ...

Pere Gimferrer has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer's Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career.

Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, D...

Volume two of he 'Collected Poems' by William Carlos Williams covers the years 1939 to 1962. As a poet, Williams wrote in a uniquely American fashion whilst he continued his serious medical career.

'Dead Beat' introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective set to do for Manchester what Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer, but her search takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford.

In 'Discipline', her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as performance, as struggle, as change, as art with...

Lydia and Bel have been best friends for years, from wild teenage days all the way through to motherhood. Bel becomes pregnant by accident and has a fraught relationship with daughter Freya, while Lydia and love-of-her-life Mac, after failed fertility treatment, choose to adopt. Gorgeous toddler ...

'A Few Interiors' is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's 'New Poetries' series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things - movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms - and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold...

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's 'Selected Poems' begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed ea...