Big and Clever Leslie Thompson

Big and Clever Leslie ThompsonToms whole life is straight out of Crap Towns. Mum died. Dads a waster. School is tough. Tom and Raks are at the bottom of the pecking order and it just shouldnt be that way but then they befriend ASBO boy, Ryan, and go to a Letchford Town football game with him. When it kicks off outside the ground with the Castleton fans, Tom and Raks are ready and up for it it aint football but Tom is hooked and cant wait for the next home game! Suddenly everyone

Love in all its guises is the subject of Nick Murray's wise and witty fiction

There's fiction from: Zakaria Tamer

He served for fifteen months in a combat unit of the IDF

the sky and the sea

The translators from German are:

The Silver Throat of the Moon includes material from writers originating in countries as diverse as Algeria and Zimbabwe

I found myself again

Omar el-Kiddi

On his tour round this half-county Curtis takes in many contrasts

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

Nina Iskrenko

Mohamed Salah al-Azab – Excerpt from Repeated Stopping