Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

Territory of Light by Yuko TsushimaA powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo.'Wonderfully poetic extraordinary freshness a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret DrabbleTerritory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two year old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous sunlight streaming through

she's convinced that only Meg could stop it happening

award-winning Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries from art and architecture

Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov

time and language groups

tinged by addiction

a life of poverty and drug addiction

But what exactly do dragons eat

Flora is pulled between passionate love and duty to her family

A true ode to motherhood

he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation-How could this massacre have happened

From her early career as a writer for Rolling Stonemagazine and her marriage to Martin Scorsese

alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices going up to the present day