Based on a true story, `Meena's Story' coversa span of nearly eighty years from 1939 when her mother, Elizabeth Burdett, stumbled on an escalator in London and fell into the arms of a dark, handsome Indian. Before long, she boarded a P&O liner bound for Bombay, to join him. The voyage to Bombay was easy. The myriad challenges that faced her from the moment she was led to hide in the servants' quarters of her Muslim husband's family house in Hyderabad, that was something else - comic, ironic, and tragic in equal measure. Set in India, Pakistan, England, and Canada, Meena's `flight to freedom' is not an escape from captivity, but rather an escape fromhaunting memories. The physical and geographical dislocations that affect Elizabeth(named Zareena by her mother-in-law) enmesh Meena as well. Swapna Gupta brings to a story of simple livestossed about by forces of religion and political violence a sensitivity and understanding that weaves together threads of love, family attachments, fear, loss, and remembrance in a moving narrative.

The second collection of poems from this outstanding Canadian poet, both collections published by Bayeux. Born and raised in India, Ayesha Chatterjee has lived in England, the USA and Germany, and now calls Toronto home. Her poetry has appeared in journals across the globe as well as being featured by the )Great) Indian Poetry Collective and on the official website of Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. Bottles and Bones is Chatterjee's second full-length collection. Bayeux Arts publisher her first The Clarity of Distance in 2011.

A beautiful story of a child's loss of a toy monkey, and the magic of imagination through which the loss is restored.

A beautiful story of a child's loss of a toy monkey, and the magic of imagination through which the loss is restored.

The Irrelevance of Space, The Katowice Eviction, Remembrance, Fal-e-Hafez, Guantanamo, and The Cyberdeath Files - stories of surprises, memories, and loss that range in settings from Scandinavia to Canada, Eastern Europe, Iran, Cuba and the USA. A thread of coincidences runs through the stories, some true, other fanciful.