Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko KawakamiA young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags. But life keeps getting in the way there's his beloved grandmother's illness, and a faltering friendship with

a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn

author of In At The Deep End

only to meet again later at a diner

In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness

Dogs and children can be great friends and having a dog can help children develop kindness

is dragged away to the Tower of London

In one hundred short essays David Collard navigates James Joyce’s astonishing cultural legacy in the century since the publication of Ulysses in 1922

Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes in France

the racialised tropes of jazz

stout-hearted Peggotty

mighty mammoths

haunting and heartbreaking