Goose Fair Night, by Kathy Pimlott & A Woman in the Queue, by Jo Dixon

Goose Fair Night is a generous, jellied feast of a book, full of sharp-eyed yet tender details about friendship, family and familiarity.

It is almost customary to ascribe the quality of confidence to a debut pamphlet, but confident is precisely what Jo Dixon’s A Woman in the Queue is; often breathtakingly so.