Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that ghosts these days are decidedly lacking and that people haven't been scared of ghosts for years. So one day they decide that something needs to change - it's time for these ghosts to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts?

Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that ghosts these days are decidedly lacking - people haven't been scared of ghosts for years. So one day they decide that something needs to change - it's time for these ghosts to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts?

Yellowcake brings together another ten short stories from this extraordinarily talented writer - each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking.'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' Weekend Australian'The genius (not too strong a word) of Margo Lanagan is her ability to reach into darkness and return with something both different and powerfully convincing. It's astonishing enough to be introduced so abruptly to a writer this good, but even more ext...

King Derek, the King of Dudley, is one of the most loved Kings in all the land. Then King Derek sees an advert in 'The Royal Gazette' that reads, "Wonder Wizards make all things Wonderful".Wonder Wizards come in many different colours. But be careful what you wish for King Derek, because it is Wonder Wizard policy never to reverse spells. Oh, King Derek what have you done?

The fable 'Hungry Squirrels in the Village of Idiots' is a short childens novel, with a few adult themes.***A man called Winter Solitude lives a solitary life on a mountain in an unnamed region of Europe. His house overlooks a vast unpopulated stretch of bog called the Ordain Marsh. Legend has it that the bog was once home to a large city which sank in the swampy mud thousands of years ago.One day a young woman comes calling on Winter. She asks him to be her guide t...