Previous contributor Cantara Christopher announces that her new novel, Japanese Love Song, will be released on Memorial Day 2006.

Marcia Douglas, whose excerpt, "The Language of Snails, we published in our special Caribbean theme edition in Spring 2004, reports that her new novel, Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells, will be released in the US in January 2006 by Caribbean publisher extraordinaire, Peepal Tree Press. Buy it now and enjoy free postage and packing (see website for details).

News from Michael Hettich: He's coming out with two new books this year: Swimmer Dreams (winner of the Tales Prize, from Turning Point); and Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems from New Rivers Press.