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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joe HillAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Strange WeatherAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Horror Science Fiction|summary= Strange Weather ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a collection few decades of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weathertechnology in my lifetime. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill I've kept up reasonably well with what's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence advantageous to me but I'm left with the nextfeeling that it's all getting away from me. As Hill himself says ''the beauty Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the world possibilities and the horror of the world were twined togetherprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they', never is this truer than re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautya way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina StibbeB0CDZRGT1M|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch

|genre=Humour Short Stories|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and fully rounded little story if that failed story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays itflash fictions in a book of them? I don's all having to make sure itt know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn's suitably free-range and organic – t a fixed definition of flash fiction but not too organic that you can go and visit itfor this collection, and get too friendly with it to want to eat itauthor Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. Christmas, though, is of course also That's about a time of great boonssingle page in your average paperback. }}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Harrison|title=Bad Dolls|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=It's cash in hand for been some time since I've read any horror. I had a lot couple of plump people who can hire red suits and beardsmisspent teen years reading Stephen King, it was always borrowing the books from a godsend boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for postmen with all fear of the thankvampires outside! Don't worry -you letters this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to aunties you saw twice a decade read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that your parents made you write out at least in long-hand part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a childbreakup, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – welltrying a new dieting app, did they even try going to a hen party and sell them any other time of the year?a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241309824</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip K DickB0CCCVRSGX|title= Philip K Dick's Electric DreamsStories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating= 34|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= Philip K DickThis is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories were originally published . There are thirteen in the 50s, but they are more present than pastall and I took something from each of them. On the big screen There isn't a single one that doesn'Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched t deserve to be among the others or brings down the Dick-inspired cult classic overall quality. It can be tricky to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's review short stories for TV. Startlinglywithout giving too much away, Dickso I's current relevance reaches beyond fiction ll just pick two to talk about and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half I think they give a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realitygeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erinna Mettler1739593901|title= Fifteen Minutes22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=''Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night- vision killer drones and in this advent automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of social media, the updates on celebrity come 24 hours a day, delivered confessions to us on our televisions, our magazines, on our phones and our computersmake. In focusing I'm not keen on these heightened short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and airbrushed lives though, are we missing then forget to return to the more interesting and human stories that are out book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there? That's what Erinna Mettler considers in ''15 Minutesscience fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It' s human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty- two science fiction short stories that feature celebrity encounters told through the eyes of ordinary? Well, but no less compelling, charactersI loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191158636X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)B09XZMCDVF|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the NorthStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=34|genre=Anthologies Short Stories|summary=A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's best short works, it's that A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a dozen. It's not from one snapshot wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time, as some were written to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the year of publication and some ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the 1960s. Itpub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'s not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set  This collection of laptop keys, but from thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the entire Nordic world, whether idea that be urban Scandinaviaremarkable and strange, the Faroes and other island groupseven miraculous, or Greenlandthings can happen to ordinary people. That is a world And thatordinary doesn's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testifyt mean boring or uninteresting. It's a world where new roads Form and new building works mean a family living on the edge tone varies so this little treasury of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the end, short fiction is never boring and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems to be even the charactersyou're never quite sure what' species…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>s coming next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Solomon1737030942|title=Taking WainuiBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=24|genre=General FictionAnthologies|summary= This is the Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first time encountered his writing about a year ago, when I have come across Laura Solomon's workread his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for both her fiction and poetrytheir partying. Although Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this book appears to be a collection anthology of verse and short stories, I found its format somewhat confusing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk> Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Steven1529418100|title=Winter Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|summary= Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection I'm not usually a fan of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around - I find it all too easy to put the world as you read book down between stories set in and forget to pick it up again - but I am a variety fan of places from Helsinki Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to New York, Germany read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to Russiaresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a key component of short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - For those new to his advantage as he gives each story the series, there's an individual focal subject, such as bullying, ensuring excellent introduction that will tell you are reading a distinct story every time all you open need to know about who's who and the bookbackground to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08NF79QXT|title= FearCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 53|genre= Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spineThirty-one-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahlyear old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, these terrible tales of ghostly goingsthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins -on will have you shivering the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with fear as her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you turn the pagescan see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08KKQ85FN|title= WarBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories|summary=In war''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, are we at our heroic best an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or our cowardly worst, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time as a fighter pilot has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict situation and strifetheir dog, Beagle, Dahl reveals the human side has no intention of our most inhumane activityslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08CHJLNBS|title= TrickeryCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 53|genre= Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are a partner at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty- nine, librarian andarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, sometimeswhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, even ourselvesto something a little deeper. Here Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, among othersbut, youabove all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They'll read re obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriagehis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the light fingered hitchwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-hiker and the grateful motoriststarter, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roald DahlMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= InnocenceCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary=What makes us innocent Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and how other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do we come this, or not to be able to lose it? Featuring do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the autobiographical stories telling verge of Roald Dahlmarrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales no escaping it. Which is why the theme of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors this book of growing up. Among other short storiesis such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her fatherdemonised place, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at schoolother bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405933259</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanStibbe_Xmas|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|genre=Short Stories Humour|summary=I won't be alone in stating Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwardfailed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Going through from ANowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas range and characters in short order can be organic – but not too much, but do organic that you have the right to pick can go and choose according to what appealsvisit it, and what time you have get too friendly with it to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surely. Such would appear want to be the case hereeat it. The last Christmas, though, is of course also a time I read one of this authorgreat boons. It's collectionscash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], all the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you not only get write out in long-hand as a whopping forty pieces child, and as for the makers of writingMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they are also spread into sections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>even try and sell them any other time of the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book|author=James KelmanTove Jansson|rating=5|titlegenre=Literary Fiction|summary=That Was Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a Shiver, feeling for the natural world and Other Storiesthe simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=Nights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=This ''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is the ninth book a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this authorcollection, which means he's presented just as many collections is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the short form as he has novelsshadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. You will find it hard Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to think achieve a glimmer of another hope.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=Exhalation |author that =Ted Chiang|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Over the past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has been published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by James KelmanTed Chiang. If you haven't then take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1794467440|title=Watchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning summary=This satisfying collection of short stories has a provenance at least as beguiling as the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for provenance of the time-poor, or those antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of and had been told was like me who see the variety in a writer1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's short or less typical works how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to be the more interesting places to turnAntique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. Opening these pagesThe eBay purchase was a fake, from but the pen friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the seed of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipationidea for a book was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529006031|title=Return to Wonderland

|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn'A Change Is Gonna Comet really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don'' is an anthology of t remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories and poems interpreting that come at the core from a tangent, that show the theme benefits of change by twelve BAME writersthe oblique glance. It I've always preferred coming to an author's Stripes Publishingoutput through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And itsame with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a great responsehunch, for obvious reasons).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk> For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Stancey1846974658|title= The Madonna of the PoolLong Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating= 3.54|genre= Short Stories|summary= In most short story collectionsOn my travels around the world, an overarching theme I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is usually present in each of selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the narratives which help each story gently flow in to next person, what I'm really looking for is the next. In this debut collection Helen Stancey explores 'local' – the quiet disappointmentscookbook maybe, achievementsthe maps definitely, and complications that each of us experience through everyday lifebut above all: the folk tales. She draws attention If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to the small events and decisions that hunt, I can both disrupt and significantly alter the lives of others and ourselves, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughoutread before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna WalshB077969HN8|title=Worlds from the Word's EndAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating=34.5

|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorLaura Solomon's fairly recent collection of publisher describes the short stories, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I myself missed out, but 'm rather glad that seemed to be vignettes from one characterI didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and m not normally a host morefan of either, as well as much less of but I've come to two conclusions about the sadness prevalent before. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy of her entry into book: what the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, publisher says is correct - and I was intrigued by her name being stamped on a selection of shortsreally enjoyed it. Was it the ideal calling card? Let The comedy is not ''too''s face it, black and the very short story itself can be surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a postcard – let's say, from a specific hotel twist or two, as we see hereflick of reality when you were least expecting it. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>nicest possible way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips9386897504|title=Some Possible SolutionsTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=Picture a world where you, a new mother, move to a town where you slowly start to realise I've always believed that every other woman seems less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a replica great deal of you – dressing skill and doing as you do. Consider talent to write a place where you have a perfect other half – most literally – but it's only to be found on an alien planet. Or how about short story which holds the woman who suddenly finds she can see everything reader and everyone else alive as having no skin, just organs, tissue and bone as if everyone was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? keeps them coming back for more. A lot There are far too many collections of these short stories which are hard all too easy to summarise without dropping into the voice put down and forget after you've read a couple of the pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha'Twilight Zones Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell' narration, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this authors Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of lifeUnveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin Liu1986586898|title= Going To The Wandering EarthLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= If anyone thought that In the short opening story as , a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againman whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the short form Gold Cup when the ground is Sci-fiagainst him. So when you pick up a collection My favourite was ''The Story of Sci-fi shortsH'', you know that it will have just the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novela kind horse who only wanted to please people. Add After changing hands on various occasions he came to that the intrigue yard of seeing how John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has Grand National and considered a somewhat different worldno-view in many ways to much hoper. In one of the rest most dramatic runnings of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only race, a bestpile-seller in his home country but has up occurred at the distinction of having produced 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the first translated work of SF ever fence and galloped to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493<line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)9386897296|title= I Am The Brother Of XXHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating= 43.5|genre= Short Stories|summary=A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I Am The Brother of XXwas delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling'' is . It's probably not much of a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughout, from spoiler to say that Marsha bested the evil done between husband and wife devil in ''The AviaryMarsha's Deal'', a nasty tale of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to senseless annihilation wage war on Planet Earth and immolation in particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'The Heir'goody two shoes'in Hell). Jaeggy also appears to have Although a particular fascination with religionstrong person, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in she''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of s vulnerable where her storiesfoster children are concerned. Family Daniel is also framed for a recurrent theme; whether focused on the distance between siblings in the titular story, told from the point of view of a brother filled with longing crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and loneliness trying refused permission to create a bond return to live with his distant older sisterMarsha. Then, or of course, there are all the primal need other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide'devil's evil ends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malcolm Devlin|title= You Will Grow Into Them|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary= He''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred s out to prey on the nature of transition their fears and weaknesses and changeas with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. The often grisly This is no small-scale operation, macabre and ghoulish nature of either - the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictivedevil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389431</amazonuk>