Caroline Smith’s new collection, The Immigration Handbook, contains poems influenced by stories heard by the author every day in her work as an Immigration Caseworker. A heartbreaking and vital collection.

Aled Rhys Hughes is a photographer who for the past five years has re-visited Mametz Wood, the site of the Great War battle so linked with Welsh identity. His new book Mametz contains 49 striking contemporary photographs of the landscape.

Bethany W. Pope is a poet and author. Her debut novel Masque is a richly gothic and psychological re-telling of Gaston Leroux’s classic story, The Phantom of the Opera.

Nicholas Murray is a biographer, novelist, poet and literary activist. His latest book, Crossings, reflects on the geographic, social, religious and educational borders Murray has crossed in his life.