Pleasure BeachPleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West's saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as Homers Odyssey and James Joyces Ulysses. Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi, 19, is struggling

novelist Albert Cossery

economic vacuums felt by people in Bulgaria

itself - knowing how pentameters dance is important

Herman Melville’s Mardi

they have married

Robert Gillmor

Oliver Dixon’s debut poetry collection maps the city of London and its inhabitants: from starlings and plane trees to a Stockhausen-listening street cleaner

Taleb Alrefai Excerpt from the novel Samar’s Words

I Am not Raymond Wallace is a multi-stranded story of queer redemption spanning multiple generations

Our current climate

They filter class out  of their world-view in ways that remove the experience of class-based oppression from black and minority ethnic people

the reader is taken to Dresden and Brixton