SublunarIn the sixteenth century, on the island of Hven, the pioneering Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, is undertaking an elaborate study of the night sky A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the worlds most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistantsa filthy cast of charactersSublunaris both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new noseflesh, wood, or gold?Brahe (a choleric

Desiree currently lives in Sheffield

she brings together both the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Caribbean discussions of the role of oral and visual traditions in Caribbean culture

just out of prison

translated by Kathryn Stapley

Hjelmgaard’s poems reveal uncertainty

and two debut novels from two poets – Moroccan Nassima Raoui’s “Teatro Cervantes”

especially

and Attention Seekers is her unforgettable debut

as geological forms and feathered Amerindian goddesses

illuminating their characters and qualities

'Second in the ‘Nicky Burkett’ series

Starting from a direct confrontation with the raw facts of mortality