Late SpringHuang Ying, the timid bumpkin, owes everything to Wang Feng. Shed taken her under her wing, introduced her to a dazzling new world and watched her flourish but perhaps shed done her job too well Now, the country girl lives in a fancy apartment with a well paid job and a happy family. And the old mentor spirals the drain after a misunderstanding with her boss. But Wang Fengs not one for backing down, especially when her protege starts living her life.

Nikolaids’ prose is precise and bitingly funny and his protagonists hopeless misanthropes: from the local sleuth who sacrifices truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear to the local reporter who discovers that his own past was concocted by Yugoslav secret services and enters a state of time-travelling paranoia

and their everyday braveries

Kathryn Simmonds was born in Hertfordshire and worked in children’s publishing before taking a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia in 2002

the Gulf states and Guinea

Nazik al-Mala'ika

12-year-old Bela has always dreamed about becoming a famous Bollywood star

He has also written a collection of short fiction

So why are sex robots such a hot topic

Skrubolz Garbillkore (Book Works

as a participant at finance meetings

Margaret Atwood

arguing that dogs don’t try to neigh