If You Want ThunderRuth Valentine's tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent

"Stars in the north are seen not to set

translated into Italian by Roberto Nassi

investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these

amidst the shouts and the laughter

François Villon

it is passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country

primarily in a propulsive

Richard Skinner

He was formerly a junior crime reporter for the Whitley Bay Advertiser

Whilst Clarice has her blue-eyed Jesus

Ghalib Halasa We are the Generation without Teachers

everyday Britain and outer space