Midland Thomas Lynch

Midland Thomas LynchAn industrial accident in a wire factory and the chance discovery of a birth certificate. Church services held in a ruined swimming pool. An unidentified elephant skull. Midland tells the stories of three young women as they fight to find their feet amidst the accumulated rubble of the twentieth century. From the bombsites of the 1940s to the construction sites of the 1960s and the school halls and decaying tower blocks of the 1980s, Honor Gavin has

Eoghan Walls

Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before

architect and Channel 4 presenter

artists and asylum seekers

There’s nothing I hate more than dust

together with a map

a rich businessman

constructing her second tongue in a defamiliarised way without the cliches and lazy comforts of acquaintance

From Mike Lyons' Translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's: ‘War Diary’

• Elena Shvarts

it was Peepal Tree Press’s bestselling title of 2010

A hugely impressive collection