Quickly, While They Still Have Horses by Jan Carson

Quickly, While They Still Have Horses by Jan Carson'Jan Carson is a born storyteller: her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and curious too you never know where she's going to take you next, so reading her is always an adventure. Exactly how it should be.' LISA MCINERNEY, author of THE GLORIOUS HERESIES In sixteen sparkling stories, Jan Carson introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the

Girls will find answers to questions they always wanted to ask

a land of mysterious taboos

a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history

with a simple

"doublethink" and "thoughtcrime" - Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance

Understanding and sympathetic

When the mysterious boy Frindleswylde enters Cora and Grandma's house in the woods

As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing

and what it means for us as individuals

hope pointed/like the scope of a firing squad

For Kerri there was to be one more change

'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland