A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda.



Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation...





This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.



Christos Tsiolkas is the author of The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010, and the critically acclaimed Barracuda. He lives in Melbourne.



The best writing you are likely to come across on the shifting boundaries between love and friendship... A blistering, accomplished collection



As compelling to read as a novel... A contemporary storyteller working at the very top of his game



An engrossing, powerful, disturbing collection



Raw and powerful



Not just an impressive talent but an appalling one



Acclaim for The Slap:





'A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece' Chris Cleave



'The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force' Colm Tóibín



'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium' John Boyne



'As addictive as the best soap opera' Daily Mail



Acclaim for Barracuda:



'Tsiolkas writes with compelling clarity about the primal stuff that drives us all: the love and hate and fear of failure... A brilliant, beautiful book. If it doesn't make you cry, you can't be fully alive.' (Sunday Times)



'I finished Barracuda on a high: moved, elated, immersed... This is the work of a superb writer who has completely mastered his craft but lost nothing of his fiery spirit in so doing. It is a big achievement.'