A River Dies of Thirst : Diaries by Mahmoud Darwish

A River Dies of Thirst : Diaries by Mahmoud Darwish'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace with life.'

liberating

It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility

these poems root through the fibrous dark of our psyche

written by Caroline Crowe and illustrated by Cally Johnson-Isaacs

'Fascinating' GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRS

Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit

what's worth living

Darren comes face to face with pure evil in the form of Mr Tiny

their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood

'A dazzling treatise

and possible solutions

But on his computer was shattering evidence: for nearly a decade