Fit Anaïs Duplan

Fit Anaïs DuplanThis is the first novel by Sammy Wright, a secondary school teacher with first hand experience of a contemporary Britain in which children starve and the gulf between rich and poor is vast and growing. Charting the impact on a small community of a girl being plucked by happenstance from her foster home and dropped into a dazzling new life as a London model, Fit is a moving, tragic, but ultimately hopeful look at the ways in which poverty and neglect

and now – thanks to the thoughtful translation work of Jayde Will – English

Martin Hayes

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her

It includes well-known poems like ‘The Ladle’

and to those who have remained to keep the hearth burning and the heart alive and well

a modernist romantic

It's comprehensiveness alone would make it an invaluable introduction to an enormously creative community of poets

Enter Emily Nardini

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individual guilt

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