Rainbow Candles Fadhil Sultani

Rainbow Candles Fadhil SultaniThe twelfth in Five Leaves' series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. Tony Challis's debut collection, Rainbow Candles, is a mixture of the celebratory and the sombre, across the three sections and sometimes in individual poems. The first section, Heart, explores LGBT+ themes as experienced by Challis from the start of the Gay Liberation movement. The second section, Tongue, looks at life with a sideways glance and tongue firmly in

Kit Fan translates Bei Dao’s ‘June’ in the light of Hong Kong’s recent protests

gently steering itself towards reconciliation with loss

Black Lives Matter

” James A Cox

wry humour and a keen eye for the telling details that set one flawed human apart from another

His task: to break the enemy’s near-impenetrable codes

Its collage technique reflects the continual shifts of life in the city of light

is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia’s bestselling author Evald Flisar

an elderly career criminal with no-one to turn to but the police

which is a touching account of lost love through the image of a fingertip

food and even the air we breathe

using her poems for a complex apprehension of our world