'Wildly imaginative ... There is a spectacular wizardry to her words' Observer'Quick before the story ebbs away.There are things I need to tell you'A work of great strength and equal delicacy, Mouth transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, Palace, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek traged...

Un giorno, a nove anni, Ruby smette di parlare. Nel silenzio che la avvolge si ritira dal mondo, cercando rifugio dalle tempeste che scuotono la sua famiglia: la fragilità della madre, le cui assenze si fanno sempre più lunghe e dolorose e, alla fine, definitive, e la pressione di una periferia inglese in cui le differenze non sono sempre accolte. Figlia di immigrati indiani, Ruby naviga tra il caos della malattia materna e la vivacità della sorella Rania, mentre una schiera di personaggi ...

A teacher asked me a question; and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly; knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes; until; one day; she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge; sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent; deft; and sparkling with wry humour...

The rise of nature writing as a cultural phenomenon is nothing new. Yet it has stirred questions relating to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and writers.In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre-defining anthology considers nature poetry from its historical roots to more recent flourishings, presenting how Black and Asian poets of past and p...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2022**A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again.Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburb...