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A drag queen’s hallucinatory journey through a hyperreal version of Glasgow is extremely arch – and a lot of fun

In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.

This delicate novel explores the bonds between three Libyan men living in London, far away from their homeland

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The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

In this darkly satirical novel about 21st-century motherhood and women’s labour, the protagonist seeks liberation at a brothel-cum-yoga studio