Millie & Bird Malika Moustadraf sometimes wistful

sometimes wistful

as well as its sister work Chorale

the ease of a great writer: that you don't notice the lightning as it emerges from the depths

The translation and dispersal of poetry throughout the world sustains an old ideal of internationalism

Bernard Kops’ autobiography of his early years in London’s East End through to his emergence as a major writer in Soho in the 1950s and his drug-induced madness in the 1960s has been re-issued

Millie & Bird Malika Moustadraf sometimes wistfulThis collection explores the world of the Costa Prize winning story Millie and Bird: a northern landscape of fragile lives bound by the invisible threads of place. The stories in this haunting collection have appeared in literary journals and on prize shortlists with Millie and Bird winning the 2012 Costa Short Story prize. A soldier flees the enemy, a woman buries a pig, a girl goes in search of her father these are stories of northern lives, of what