Sweet Song of the Siren: And Other Short Stories

In his third collection of short stories, Thailand-based author William Peskett introduces us to a murderer who sees himself carved in stone, a writer whose dead wife returns to him through time, a robot community waiting for their saviour, a man who falls in love with part of his own body, a woman dying slowly of dementia and a troupe of wise-cracking monkeys.Humour and melancholy, comfort and suspense, this collection possesses all of these qualities, sometimes within the same story. Most...