This collection of short stories and poetry set in post-Ceauşescu and post-Cold War Romania takes readers on a journey through the author's home town of Brăila in the east of the country. Exiled Romanian author Bogdan Tiganov explores social, religious and political issues with insightful frankness, through an array of colourful characters and narratives focusing on this newly, supposedly liberated world. Tiganov's stories offer an honest and rounded view of immigration like never heard before: the opportunities and the pitfalls, the reasons for and against mass migration, the pains suffered, the euphoric hope and optimism, the naivety and the greed. This revised edition features brand new short stories and a new introduction from the author. Candid and exposing, this warts-and-all look at Romanian life with its dark undercurrent of wit cuts to the very heart of the country's culture.

The Wooden Tongue Speaks: Romanians: Contradictions & Realities

Literature & Fiction

Tiganov, Bogdan

Poetry

Honest Publishing

From the back seat of a porn theatre, from the word lovers' asylum, Honest Publishing's second release is the controversial, earth-shattering, mind-smacking The Killing of a Bank Manager. Inspired by John Cassavetes giving away the ending and James Joyce selling his soul to The Benny Hill Show, Kavanagh has deconstructed and reconstruced wordage to blow the contemporary reader's iMind. The Killing of a Bank Manager revolves around Henry, a man on the edge, head over heels in love with beauty, literature and drinking. The moments before, the days that lead up to, the years that have built up to, the green doors and Richard Dadd. The story bubbles with greed, desire and the dangers associated with groups, the journey into and out of consciousness. It's the daily grind meets the daily muse. And Henry loves Laura, the honey in Winnie the Pooh, as well as razors and flights of fancy, quotes and stealing the words of others for his own battered ego. The perfect antidote to beach reading, The Killing of a Bank Manager will tease the hell out of heaven and knock Mr Mainstream's spotless teeth out onto the bathroom floor. You know how it ends. Now find out everything else.

The Killing of a Bank Manager

Humor & Entertainment

Kavanagh, Paul

Humor

Linda Ann Strang's first poetry collection skilfully entwines fairy tales, womanhood, African culture, and the female psyche. The warrior mother, the spurned lover, the maltreated bride: they are all here, expertly drawn in lush, original language that you'll want to wallow in from beginning to end. This heady mix of fairy tales, African culture, pagan myth, and feminist thought carries the reader on a wave to the surreal and the enchanting. Like the siren's call, this mind-expanding trip through the female psyche pulls readers in with beautifully crafted language that is bold, intimate, provocative, and sensual.

Wedding Underwear for Mermaids

Strang, Linda Ann

Jazz by Jéanpaul Ferro has been nominated for both the 2012 Griffin Award in Poetry and the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Award in Poetry.  Romantic and full of wistful humor, the poetry of Jéanpaul Ferro seduces through its humanity and humility. Here are poems dealing with break-ups, city life and disappointments; relevant and vibrant, they speak to the heart and mind. True to its name, Jazz has an improvised quality, shifting from step to step with delightful unpredictability. So flip open, dip in and fall in love with poetry again.

Jazz

Ferro, J

Fiction. Homegirl works in a café and doesn't know what she wants. Homegirl does live-living things like dating Punkboy and Richboy but doesn't know who she wants. A creepy creeper named Shadow knows he wants Homegirl. A Craig's List witch knows she wants Richboy. And the café bitches are always forever knowing they want the one you want cos that's just how they roll.... Homegirl don't care about any of them; she's out for love and vengeance and gots a Glock in her boot to prove it."Raucous, sexy and full of verve, HOMEGIRL! will spank you and punch you in your teeth and leave you longing for more. This is a wildly entertaining book and Homegirl's is a hypnotic voice. Ryder Collins bravely digs into the dirt and muck of human relationships and unearths more than a few truths along the way; I will follow her wherever she wants to take me."—J. W. Wang

Homegirl!

Collins, Ryder

Contemporary

Shocking, subversive and darkly hilarious, Nothing Doing's tantalising combinations of object, desire and circumstance, lead us almost inevitably into situations that prompt delicious thrills of suspense and horror - he wouldn't....would he? He almost always does. You almost always want him to.

Nothing Doing

Smith, Willie

Humor & Satire

Don and Phoebe live in a grim Northern town in England where they have nothing except disappointment and a terrified dog. Until they win an iceberg. Join them on their escape from normality across Europe, Africa and Antarctica, searching for a home, a heaven and a kaleidoscope. Iceberg is the definitive apocalyptic feel-good novel from Paul Kavanagh, the mind that bludgeoned readers with The Killing of a Bank Manager.

Iceberg

Taking its name from the imaginary African forest in Raymond Roussel's 'Impressions of Africa', The Vorrh is a magnificent, vibrant backdrop on which to stage a high octane narrative led by hunter, Tsungali, the Cyclops, Ishmael, and famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

The Vorrh

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Catling, Brian

Fantasy

Taking its name from the imaginary African forest in Raymond Roussel's Impressions of Africa, The Vorrh is a magnificent, vibrant backdrop on which to stage a high octane narrative led by hunter, Tsungali, the Cyclops, Ishmael and famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In contrast with the tired clichs of the traditional fantasy tale, The Vorrh is an invigorating, epic fantasy at its most original, ground-breaking and visionary. Features a foreword from the legendary comics and graphic novel creator, Alan Moore

Catling, B.

Take that whiskey bottle off the floor and stub out that cigarette on your arm - welcome to the love poetry of Mary Stone Dockery, winner of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in Poetry. One Last Cigarette, Dockery's second collection, is a bruising encounter with husbands, lovers and family, bodies and permanence. This is poetry with an edge; tender, harsh and bone-crafted words sifted through and pumped out of a nicotine heart, addict words, bleeding.

One Last Cigarette

Stone Dockery, Mary

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The Wooden Tongue Speaks: Romanians: Contradictions & Realities

The Killing of a Bank Manager

Wedding Underwear for Mermaids

Jazz

Homegirl!

Nothing Doing

Iceberg

The Vorrh

The Vorrh

One Last Cigarette