Black Bullets in the Sweet JarDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic.

What was it like to be married to Scotland's most famous prisoner

Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966

Most of the pictures are printed for the first time in colour as the artist intended

The mix of new and old

many parallel instances not only in the history of literature but of societies in general - as anyone who was young in 1968 and has survived into the age of Aids will be aware

and illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa

Haoua feels alone and vulnerable for the very first time in her life

addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela

White Ghosts

his parents were already dead

“…Ten times better than the usual teenage crap

Moscow as an Upturned Umbrella is a book about the thin threads that bind apparently random things together – cracked mirrors