Death by Perfume new-arrivals-180123 And to get it right

And to get it right this time

David Galloway's introduction re-examines the myths surrounding Poe's life and reputation

The reader is left to trace the shape of a lyric body in the liminal space between silence and music

In the late 1970s

World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters

Death by Perfume new-arrivals-180123 And to get it rightIn the late 1970s, a young Singaporean writer arrives in Jeddah with an infant son. She encounters a strange and often hostile environment with curiosity, empathy and good humour. In this collection of linked stories, the narrator confronts, among others, a bored expat wife with dangerously extravagant tastes, a divorced engineer with the face of a camel, and a desperate security guard who finds solace in downing bottles of perfume. Beguiling,