Ripples in the Lake Emma Wright

Ripples in the Lake Emma WrightDetective Ran Dongdong has two problems. One is the dead young woman with a missing hand, and the other is her husband. The first to be called to the scene when the body is found floating near a lakeside luxury hotel, she begins an investigation that soon leads her into a web centred on the scandalous affairs of a powerful businessman. When she begins to see echoes of the case everywhere, including in her personal relations, she cant resist

but thereafter much of his fiction has focused on the lives of West Indians in Canada

self-taught scholar

of the rhythms of the long

I became / I’ll not be

from the humorous ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the intimate

the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees

Guilt mires Sarah Winchester

Tears in the Fence

between the Brighton Pavilion and the ruined West Pier

the Castle

English and Hungarian

Two hundred years after Byron turned his back on the hypocrisy and cant of his native England