Investigating Mr WakefieldWhat's a wife, husband or partner like when you're not watching? Investigating Mr Wakefield explores the dangers waiting to ensnare those who try to find out. In tight, breathtaking writing almost claustrophobic at times Investigating Mr Wakefield brilliantly explores how surveillance can only too quickly become its own addiction, as Jack becomes overwhelmed by an imagination gone bad. Jack Connolly was a high flying war photographer. His career went

or in the hearts and minds of Jo’s inimitable female protagonists (and the men they love - or more frequently

He works as a bookselller in Dundee

2009) and Noteworthy: Images of Music (Seren

and allowed classics such as Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North the international fame they so well deserved

translated by Ilmar Lehtpere

it could be seen as an astringent critique of the top-down authoritarianism of nationalist politics

His characters are mainly migrants to Canada and the USA from Palestine Lebanon and Syria

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edited by Jackie Kay

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about an Indian worker’s struggle to provide for his far-away family