I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe MeI dont expect anyone to believe me, warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when hes kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousina wannabe entrepreneur known to some as Projects and to others as dickheadwho is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make

lit up with life’s moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport

But in the memory-dream

Mohammed Dib: Poems

Part of the popular ‘Spoke’ performance group and frequently published in The Spectator

woven into easily-broken

His doctorate was earned at Loyola University

for a TV and internet-saturated age: ‘The Walking Wed’

and this long overdue selection from his previous collections and a book’s worth of new poems offers readers a chance to enjoy the range and originality of his work

Sidereal Time (1998) and The Book of Idiots (2012)

Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol was a success from its first publication

turning towards her

guitarist and theatre director