Irresistibly exuberant short stories…Mrs Gilliatt celebrates life with intelligence, wit and kindness. Aware of the idiosyncrasy of every soul, she shares the philosophy of one of her dashing old folk: ‘Everyone’s eccentric when you get to know them, thank goodness’.

The stories in Emily Prager’s first collection are dispatches from the front line. They explore with black humour and fierce irony that territory in which provoked women and provocative men meet.
The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device follows the Foxy Fire platoon as it tests the ultimate female weapon against male members of the Vietcong.
The Alumnae Bulletin chronicles the reunion of three female graduates as they sing the school song and swap sexual fiascos.
The title story, set in 13th century China, tells of 6-year-old Pleasure Mouse and her eagerness for the crippling process which will satisfy society’s ideal of beauty.

This collection of short stories is set around the DART – the Dublin Area Rapid Transport system – and includes two eavesdropping train passengers who learn more than they bargained for about their own love lives and an office worker who imagines herself as an undercover agent.

A brilliant series of tales combining craftmanship with high comedy.
Six superbly written humorous stories featuring Speedfall, the energetic, eccentric philosophy don at St Patrick’s College, Oxford.