Jonah and His Daughter Sharif al-Rubai

Jonah and His Daughter Sharif al-RubaiAn omen that changes people, a story about how good and evil can happen at once, about the simple ones, who don't distinguish right from left, and about the complicated ones, who think they are God's chosen. This is a novel about fathers and clever daughters, who dont not let the story die. A book where love comes uninvited, as it always has done, full of suspense, and our undying desire to find purpose in this life. Drawing on the Biblical story of

The book will also appraise their contribution since the 1770s and review the current position and projections for the future

Peter Clark

In Harvest in Wilderness

not a little humour and some affection for the world he left to become a professional writer in Britain

We look at poets who translate themselves

Phil Cope journeys through the borderlands of England and Wales

Its powerful central sequence concerns the death of the author's first partner from an AIDS-related illness

declaring everything a box while refusing to exist within one

I can’t see with my left ear and I get muddled’)

Nordisk Books is delighted to publish Per Hagman’s electric début in English for the first time

a short story translated by Katy Derbyshire

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