Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi going to ground

going to ground

from hedge schools in County Clare to pizza on the Somme

Roger Allen: Essay Possibilities of meaning and delicious ambiguities

at once lyrical and heart-rending

both entertained and informed

Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi going to groundIn November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroixs fictional