Darkness in the City of LightParis is an extraordinary city, never more so than during the German occupation, with all the tensions, accommodations, resistances and paradoxes which that entailed. Civilised German officers engage in Parisian culture while their colleagues torture and kill in the city; French citizens measure what needs to be sacrificed in order to survive, or to be free. Morality is more sharply in focus than ever, and more expendable. Against this background, and

Samir Naqqash (1938–2004)

the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting

Pam Thompson

and though often inspired by events in the area

This delightful fairy-tale was first published in 1927

Her seventh collection is also a secret book of England

It’s cold out there

She wrote six novels

‘each note tethering sound to meaning

In 2016 four friends wrote the book they wish they’d had as 18 year-old women of colour going to study in the elite academic institution of Cambridge University

Once there

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