The Pretender Susan Utting

The Pretender Susan UttingMark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. A gap year in Paris sees his skill exploited by a manuscript dealer. Mark fetches up in London, working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. That's when the trouble really starts. Hemingway and Graham Greene are only the beginning. What starts as a prank soon becomes deadly serious. In this literary thriller David Belbin writes about originality, desire and literary ambition, in the

Salima Salih from Iraq

the computer and the deposed god

Mansoura Ez-Eldin Excerpt from Maryam’s Maze

a window there - opening up the house of Arab literature

for what comes next

INTERVIEW with Ghazi Algosaibi

While the lord was busy by the borders of the wood the bold Gawain kept to his soft bed

(part 1) with appreciation by A K el-Janabi

washed by the Mediterranean

a short story translated by Katy Derbyshire

My Lou I shall sleep tonight in the trenches

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