Strange Egg'Doctor, I had a terrible dream. In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw what you will do to it.' A woman is faced, month after month, with the birth of a strange egg. Her doctor asks that she take notes on her symptoms, documenting black blood clots as big as pennies, winking stars in her eyes, and relentless pain. As the woman waits for aid from her doctor, she begins to have strange premonitions of what will be done to her body. The egg,

Mak often sings about the flowers in the garden – the roses and jasmine – but Pak makes up a song all about me and my friends

Dangerous Freedom weaves fact with fiction to reveal 'the great deception' exercised by the powerful on the child known as Dido as seen through the eyes of the adult Elizabeth

stepping away from the narrative form she has made her own

seeking to show how its musicians always reflected in their music the issues of their day

to bring the boy into safe custody

had rooms howling with laughter on the spoken word circuit

from a world-systemic perspective

John Menaghan

delicate sketches of hard lives caught between the provisional quality of language and the permanence of things

Michelle Penn’s vivid imagery and startling

Burnett captures the world of cockles and clams

her two previous collections