Border Districts Paul Stephenson Jill Balcon’s audio-books ranged from

Jill Balcon’s audio-books ranged from Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife to Claire Tomalin’s Samuel Pepys

Wells’ tightly honed poems satirise the slide towards a world of frustration

has lived in Boston

are also a heartfelt defense of the right of the Estonian language to exist and flourish in our increasingly anglicised world

Hilary Spiers is a playwright and short story writer living in Lincolnshire

Border Districts Paul Stephenson Jill Balcon’s audio-books ranged fromA man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictional characters, turns of phrase and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloguing his memories,