Author:Roald Dahl

CAN a machine really do the job of a writer?
HOW would you take exact revenge on a cruel tabloid journalist?
WHY does no one emerge from the house of an eccentric landlady?
THIRTEEN UNEXPECTED TALES WITH SHOCKING AND UNSETTLING TWISTS AT EVERY TURN.
I think these stories in this book have all the right ingredients - originality, horror, ingenuity, and a touch of the macabre
—— Wendy CoolingComplex and daring, its firework prose illuminating the darkness of the ordinary
—— Independent on SundayA formidable young writer... Power unpacks her character's emotions with a firm, graceful hand
—— New York TimesA passionate, intelligent, and piercingly beautiful. It is an altogether striking debut
—— Mary GaitskillWith a sushi-chef hero, a waitress heroine and a cast of hungry-for-love characters, this novel is flavoursome and fulfilling
—— Harpers & QueenA meticulously realised otherworld...ambitious and scrupulously crafted
—— SFXA world of evocative magic, brutal warfare and poetry unlike anything I'd read before...the publication of a second novel is always a tense time - was the author a one hit wonder? Fortunately for us, Deadhouse Gates triumphantly proves that this is not the case for Steve Erikson
—— OUTLAND