Somewhere Else: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2025 Cal Bannerman

Somewhere Else: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2025 Cal BannermanRosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her fathers violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daichess Somewhere Else explores todays most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which, how to find

his collections include the trilogy Cantares Amazônicos which has been translated into German and Italian

looking for her missing dog Quincy

These poems are spoken by many different voices - mothers

The cover image is by photographer Justyna Kielbowicz

who has published many collections with the Dedalus Press

enriched by deep personal experience

They toy with our interpretations of ‘at table’

A meagre bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested

Now every surviving branch of the once-great Qi family must face the questions that remain: what will the future hold

goes the storm

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or flag up what might be celebrated before it goes