My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

and a jail where horror is leavened by humour and the greatest cruelty lives side by side with the greatest humanity

Ball Lightning

He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era

but not to safety

she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus

'I fool myself that Eden has a heart – that she would at least have trouble killing me

or endure any number of other apparent setbacks

The stories

forgetting the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners

Too simple and often wrong

Armed only with a counterfeit 100-Euro note

spanning three continents and numerous lives