Siphonophore Pam Thompson Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay

Bassam K Frangieh Embers and Ashes by Hisham Sharabi

Rohlehr asks himself and us the most profound questions – not the unanswerable metaphysics of “What are we here for

Naomi Shihab-Nye’s Tender Spot collection of poetry

with a kind of unwitting optimism

Siphonophore Pam Thompson Jackie KayMacGregor is desperate to return home. Unfortunately, he's stranded in the Gulf of Darin, during independent Scotland's doomed two year attempt at colonisation at the end of the 17th century. Worse still, he's a character in a novel whose author is dying, and he's running out of time. As the authors preoccupations, memories and spiralling thoughts start to pollute MacGregors world, he finds his narrative eroding and his escape routes blocked.