The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime harbour village of Barradoon... Barradoon: the limit of worldly navigation; stronghold of sea-myths and ancient forces; a place of simmering tension and ruthless vengeance meted out by human and inhuman alike. These densely wrought, boundlessly inventive stories form, in their totality, a singularly strange mosaic novel of sorts - ever twisting and writhing like a storm-charged ocean. Yet they are never out of the meticulous control of Lisa Hannett's masterly storytelling. The table of contents is as follows: Introduction by Kirstyn McDermott Gutted A Right Pretty Mate Another Mouth The Honey Stomach The Escape Out at the Shillingate Isles A Tanglesmithed Tale A Shot of Salt Water The Widows Guild Deep in the Drift, Spinning Watersleeves Shrithing Sandwards Rewild Ebbtide