Snapping Point Saadi Youssef

Snapping Point Saadi YoussefBut for that slender connection with the mainland, Andal would have been a regular island, says Asl Bien in the opening chapter of this deliciously multi layered novel. And it would have been an ordinary story about love and loss, if it weren't for the earthquake that unexpectedly sets the landmass afloat on the Aegean, kindling a series of increasingly oppressive measures by the authorities; ostensibly to keep public order. As Andal drifts between

Matthew Hedley Stoppard was born in Derbyshire in 1985

In the 10 years of Over the Edge

in which he was involved

It is about our politics

a reluctant hitman bound to a life of killing until he can find the man who murdered his mother

The Forsaken Lover: White Words and Black People won the Martin Luther King Prize

This is a starkly brutal novel full of Mais’s prophetic rage that for the poor and black little had changed since slavery

many of the stories in A City Burning concern a point of choice and decision

visits to Britain and the image of cows “straight out of Hardy”

Welsh Arts Council Young Writers’ Prize

A poet reflects on the lives of the different generations of women around her as she contemplates her own divorce from a socially-engaged photographer

The author directs an unpeeled gaze on the magic of the moment