'Bee Journal' is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years later.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by a single prisoner serves to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps. This ed. of this translation originally published: London: Harvill, 1991

This story tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries. As local doctor, Eduardo Plarr, negotiates for Fortnum's release, their corruption becomes evident.