Something about Living Format:Paperback

Something about Living Format:PaperbackShortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Something about Living is the brilliant third collection from acclaimed poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. It explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal? Searing with insights from the perspective of a

Roz Goddard

are trying to make sense of the brutal century from which we have emerged and the uncertain one into which we are still tentatively trespassing

Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes

An utterly charming story about a lovable 10-year-old with Down's syndrome whose extra sparkle never fails to shine bright

and totally trustworthy… This is poetry of earned authority

Cormorants dive

Gail McConnell

Mona Zaki: Saleem Barakat's mezmerising world of language and metaphor

the intelligence behind the chiselled sentences so undeniable

for many years

Growing up in silk-swathed splendour and with her grandmother's prejudices of class and race

Conversations with the presences who dwell on the threshold of waking and reverie