Feisty young animal rights activist, Shelly working at Dancing Cows vegan café, meets veteran socialist campaigner Veena. Together they join in a local campaign against racial harassment. But as passions grow, crisis looms in the café. And all is not what it seems in Veena’s family. Soon, Veena and Shelley are forced to choose where their loyalties lie.

How To Dump Your Boyfriend 

A Guide By Kym Cooper & Carl Peters

Dumping your boyfriend is never an easy decision. Most girls experience moments when they wish their bloke would vanish with his weightlifting kit, his beer cans and his slobby habits.  If these moments start multiplying like rabbits, then it's time to wake up and smell the coffee: the guy needs ditching! Now with this book, dumping has never been easier.  It will be  like a best friend, guiding readers through  all the stages.  Fun (but revealing) quizzes, sections and questions will help weary girls make the decision to finally dump.  The book also looks at that tricky period immediately after the guy has been dumped so girls don’t slide back into their awful guy’s arms. 

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Marooned in Dad’s roll-ends carpet shop, 19 year old Karim dreams of becoming a world famous filmmaker. He teams up with his buddy, the street magician, Wasif. Wasif is everything Karim would love to be: confident, suave, clever. Karim becomes the magician’s assistant. Just as Karim finally starts believing his film making dreams can come true, he is killed in mysterious circumstances.

Delroy Johnson, of Johnson Private Investigations Bureau is called in by Karim’s family, frustrated at the slow to non-existent police progress. Delroy Johnson is part time church caretaker, part time womaniser, some time investigator. More used to chasing down infidelity cases, he agrees to do what he can to find the killer. He identifies a strong suspecr but, without enough evidence for an arrest, a deadly cat and mouse game ensues.

A wide ranging collection of black love poems both contemporary and ancient. The Suitcase Book of Love Poems holds a mirror up to the soul of the UK nation. Bringing together the best of black and Asian love poetry from the UK and beyond, it is a perfect train journey read. Between the covers are confessional poems, haiku, ghazals, tankas, jazz inspired pieces and reggae poems, contributed by UK and diaspora poets at the top of their craft. Added to the mix are a selection of classic poems from black antiquity and urban remixes of some of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Dumping Her Just Got Easier!

How to dump your girlfriend is a dilemma most blokes face from time to time. So the authors (and friends) have taken it upon themselves to put this guide together. Much of his information has been road tested by them through their own experience with girlfriends. They have also done extensive research at bars, clubs, football terraces, chat rooms, speed dating evenings and around the edges of dance floors. The rest they have made up.

For those having girlfriend trouble, or those who have a friend who is going through such trouble, this is the book they need. It may or may not solve your problems. But it is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

Maya Chowdhry’s voice springs directly from the soul. It is authentic, sensuous and urgent.   Although dreamlike, her poems are not vague. They rankle with precision and are fuelled by the collision of colonial and family history. Anger gives way to the generosity of love and the open-heart of humour.

Her politics take us from the city to the sea, via barges and bedrooms. From spices to the post office, nothing is too small, too insignificant, to be part of her manifesto for a new, responsible observation. 

Sarah Hymas, Editor, Flax