Red Spikes

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Ten electrifying new stories from Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice and White Time.

'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' Weekend Australian

'The genius (not too strong a word) of Margo Lanagan is her ability to reach into darkness and return with something both different and powerfully convincing. It's astonishing enough to be introduced so abruptly to a writer this good, but even more extraordinary is her seemingly effortless mastery of the short story form, and what she proceeds to do with it.' LOCUS, USA

'Lanagan asks us to look at the world differently to see its fullness.' Sydney Morning Herald

'With enormous skill, Lanagan disturbs as she entertains, stimulating our minds and playing havoc with our hearts. ' Good Reading

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'...I was astonished by Red Spikes...The inventiveness, variety and quality of each story are extraordinary...Lanagan seems to have tapped into a bottomless reservoir of inspired creativity, each piece a unique gem.' Viewpoint, Summer 2006'...Lanagan has an extraordinarily dark sense of humour and takes obvious delight in subverting our expectations.' Junior Bookseller + Publisher, September 2006'...Highly imaginative...disturbing in their oddness...Every story is unexpected.' Australian Book Review, October 2006

Author Bio

Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories. Her collections of short stories have garnered many awards, nominations and shortlistings. Black Juice was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, won two World Fantasy Awards and the Victorian Premier's Award for Young Adult Fiction. Red Spikes won the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers, was a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Horn Book Fanfare title, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her novel Tender Morsels won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.

Margo lives in Sydney. She maintains a blog at www.amongamidwhile.blogspot.com and can be found on Twitter as @margolanagan.