The Girls Are Pretty CrocodilesBold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readmans stories are both magical and real. Following her acclaimed debut Dont Try This at Home, in this new collection, she approaches the fairy tale with a scalpel. The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles reads like a love letter to girlhood and a ransom note to all the fairy tales we have been told. In her prize winning work 'The Story Never Told', an illiterate woman sells fairy tales for a book she knows will never have

The collection is a testament to the human condition in all its moods

foreign assignments issued at the drop of a hat

A single poem

and the early days of the local Labour party

Many have never handled a weapon or strayed far from their native shire

selected poems of Fadhil al-Azzawi

Woods is also one of the founder editors of the long-running literary journal Cyphers

the mystery at the heart of forgiveness

Angus defies his pacifist upbringing and enlists to find his wife’s brother

vicious and virtuous circles – again and again

and the first to deal with the pivotal volume

an elderly Brahmin