Books by Padrika Tarrant

In the house where Marie lives, the cutlery is running wild ... Madness and fairy-story creep hand in hand in this darkly comic tale, where the mice learn the art of voodoo; where murdered bodies miraculously vanish; where the grandmother is sometimes an owl and where steak-knives grow so hungry that they scream.

Broken Things encompasses a world of fractured realities and urban magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves, where the world is lopsided and nothing may be trusted. A kitchen knife crawls after a little girl to keep her safe and an old lady hears her mother calling from a cupboard.

By turns tender and unsettling, these stories lurk at the city's tattered edges, where the pigeons cry for the pain of the world; where Satan's daughter wants to die of love and the angels keep nicking God's fags.