The Little Buddhist Monk Peter Gordon Williams

The Little Buddhist Monk Peter Gordon WilliamsIn Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary, he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover

poetry and short stories

Tunisia and Sudan and include excerpts from the 2015 shortlist of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

The Mourning Vessels is a previous Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month (November 2008)

Palestine and Syria

It demonstrates the resilience in these communities

He now lives and works in Miami

Owen Sheers is the author of the novel Resistance (2008)

Her book Hue Boy (written by Rita Phillips Mitchell) won the Smarties Gold Award in 1993 and Gregory Cool

Channer draws on his own knowledge of Jamaican culture

and a big one at that

The books reviewed include first titles from the two newest Irish publishers

his entry in Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series of short novels (2010)