A worthy successor to Roald Dahl, Alex Burrett's first collection of stories is a surreal treat.

"Burrett's imagination is as fertile as that of Jorge Luis Borges's, and he's more readable, and funnier." The Independent on Sunday

Thirty utterly original, darkly surreal and dangerously funny tales unfold in the present, past and future in mythic space and the not-quite-ordinary everyday world. In them you will meet a panoply of unforgettable characters, including the ex’s of both God and Death, a dog addicted to cocaine, a couple who literally merge through the intensity of their mutual lust; and another who eat their kids. And of course, the goat that ate its own legs.

"It takes a crazy kind of genius to craft adult tales that are as dark, bizarre and hilarious as those in My Goat Ate Its Own Legs, and Alex Burrett certainly possesses it. In this collection he comes across like the bastard spawn of Richard Brautigan and Hans Christian Anderson." Tony O'Neill, author of Hero of the Underground and Down and Out on Murder Mile

Alex Burrett lives in London, where he works in advertising. This is his first collection of stories.

Details

• ISBN 9781905636372
• Publication date: 20th November 2008
• Size: B format chewed
• Pages: 320
• RRP: £7.99

Audio version

• ISBN 9781905636877
• Publication date: 2009
• Format: MP3 unabridged
• Read by the author
• RRP: £8.99

Rights information

• World rights
• US rights sold to Harper Perennial

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