Dreaming of Dead People Chitra Soundar and illustrated by Poonam Mistry

Dreaming of Dead People Chitra Soundar and illustrated by Poonam MistryIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes

of all that I see

and its speculative concern with the nature of islands in the Western imagination challenges us to new points of view

author of Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother

in an interview by Sana Goyal

Ground Provisions traverses the natural world

Pat Edwards

McBey was a Scottish superstar amongst the creative spirits that fuelled the Etching Revival of the late nineteenth century and Etching Boom of the early twentieth century

their mother is white

disobedient exploits in her long and remarkable life

Marking Time succeeds in part because of its broad perspective not only on Caribbean affairs but on contemporary English manners and society

Despite her enormous international reputation Morgan was essentially a Valleys person and the book explores the importance of Welsh identity to her

He plays witness to a mix of the comedic and the tragic