This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

This is Not Miami by Fernanda MelchorSet in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories spiralling from real events that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These cronicas a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non fiction and novelistic forms probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to

funny and at times heartbreaking

and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books

Aida Alami

She speaks of the undiscussed taboo around entering the water while menstruating - and of how she has come to celebrate her own bodily cycles

as darkly imaginative as it is bizarre and surprising

and Hogwarts itself is not safe

and searingly honest

The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'

Stunning illustrations

I am not my husband

that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis

Following the removal of the last prisoner in 1924 the gaol was abandoned for many years but never quite forgotten