The Tourist ButcherTaken from his highly successful collection, these two stories take unconventional positions towards short story archetypes. The Tourist Butcher is an unflinching tale about a serial killer who prepares his victims for a culinary dish, while Memories in Aluminium Foil follows the nightmares and existential crisis of a psychology student who receives a slice of human brain in aluminium foil as a gift from his biologist roommate. In the original Dutch

inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives

his story – supreme success though it is – is also a grand example of fate at her most ungenerous

As a first choice saxophonist and clarinettist for the orchestras that accompany the stars he has been close to them on stage and off

The resulting schoolchildren's strikes and protests

is a regular visitor to Venice

entertain and provoke all who climb its towers and pace its halls

How did they go about making new ones

his speculative novella

who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939-45 desert war in North Africa

Stevie Smith

An international competition adjudicator and editor

grandmother