Pincers of DeathThe empire of the ant people is beginning to crumble. As the British Space Navy prepares to invade the Ghast homeworld, the Secret Service comes up with a daring plan the assassination of Number One, the small and furious dictator of the Ghasts. Only one man has the qualities needed to take on a job this dangerous Captain Isambard Smith. But Smith has problems of his own. Captured by the ruthless and gormless Criminarch of Radishia, Smith and his crew

leads her to the delusion that she has found escape and meaning

Heather Island and the anthology The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets

Cheryl Follon

In October 1953

O'Connor Award

WN Herbert

Rosa Yassin Hassan

This is his first

He is currently Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sussex

and The Mehlis Report by Lebanese novelist Rabee Jaber (his winning novel The Druze of Belgrade has yet to be translated)

from the 'Drinking Rum and Coca Cola' years of the 40s and 50s to the bewildering

this book sings