The Impossible PresidentIn Nigeria, where power is a man's game, Sharon Nwosu dares to dream. Thrown into a world of ruthless politics, Sharon manoeuvres through a treacherous landscape where corruption is the currency and terror lurks in the shadows. As she ascends through the ranks, each step is met with fierce opposition from those who believe a woman's place is anywhere but in the seat of power. But Sharon is no ordinary woman. Haunted by personal tragedies and fuelled

from Poland at the outbreak of the First World War to present-day Britain

Owen Gallagher was born in 1949 in Glasgow of Irish parents

He was killed in action in Burma

Blanche Wittmann

the decay of memory and of death

an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor

In this modern-day Pinocchio story

There to snatch it is the Crown Prince

It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared"

one novel excerpt and book reviews

grave-robbing and murder are an integral part of everyday life in a rural Chinese province untethered from reality

seven poems