A brilliant new short story collection from award-winning writer and editor Conrad Williams, featuring two brand new short stories and previously uncollected work. A devastating and profoundly moving collection that explores the tangled skein and woven bones of the human condition that surrounds us. Intricate, intimate, and shocking. A masterpiece. Conrad Williams is the author of the novels Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Loss of Separation, Dust and Desire, Sonata of the Dead and Hell is Empty. His short fiction is collected in Use Once then Destroy and Born with Teeth. He has edited two Gutshot and Dead Letters. His work has won the British Fantasy award, the International Guild award and the Littlewood Arc prize and he has been on the shortlist for the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and a Crime Writers’ Association Dagger. He lives in Manchester with his wife and three sons. His tenth novel will be published in 2018.