Hieroglyphics and Other StoriesA beautiful collection charming, witty and touching these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety. This

Faulkner said

their throats brutally slashed

You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society

Kyndra is blamed

A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds

When Space Rocket Factory Number Two closes down in the small Chinese town of Shaoyang

As the water floods through the cabin

a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood

he is forced to question everything he stood for

back to Chicago in 1968 and

The Wind-Palace

publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves