An excerpt from a new novel, Sketcher by Roland Watson-Grant, to be published by Alma Books in May 2013.

A couple spend a weekend away at a cottage in the Yorkshire Moors and the balance of power in their relationship shifts...

A new short story by Ian McNab. "...Felix had worked tirelessly to make his particular brand of offbeat spirituality the most appealing."

The first story in a new series of pieces, 'Putting it Away', by Dave McGowan.

A new short story by Lucy Hume.

'I had arrived in New York a month ago and was heading to Mexico. I wanted to see as much of the States as possible. What did that make me? A tourist? A traveller? A bum or a hobo. I didn't care.' A new short story by Deirdre Shanahan.

"It was June 1986. Wham! were at no. 1 with ‘Edge of Heaven’. They’d just split up. Some of the girls at school had gone to pieces and cried for days. Maria Taylor’s mother had to come and collect her from school early because she went all hysterical in French when she saw Meg Browne’s Andrew Ridgeley pencil case."...

A new short story by Armenian writer Lusine Vayachyan.