Last chance. Copies of the boxed edition are still available. Pick one up and you won't have to resort to extreme tactics to read the book in whatever order you choose.

Not a bad way to look at it!

Every gap in ABC programming that wasn’t filled with Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk.

24 hours to go.

At the bottom of the box, you’ll find a string of random words. Every single copy contains a unique set of five. No repeats. Astute readers of the box may ask: who in the story world compiled all these curiosities and kept them all together? These little word strings provide the answer.

Trocadero Dance Topics was a real newsletter published through the 1930s and 40s. The newsletter tells essentially an additional story to the collection, narrated by an unnamed local prude.

Three days to go.

She’s very cultured I’ll have you know.

Kudos for going old school with RSS! I like the intimate nature of email. It's just you and the reader. Blogging out in the open is broadcast, just screaming into a void. With email you have an audience. Actually I was really happy to get the best of both worlds: a private blog with email (or RSS).

Sign up if this sounds like your bag. www.simongroth.com/newsletter

This page from a poetry anthology has been marked up by a couple of characters from the story Coda. The page contains Yeats’s lesser known poem about Byzantium, shoehorning in a reference to my favourite medieval weirdoes. On the back is part of Wilfred Owen’s poem, ‘Disabled’.

¡Muchas gracias! I’ll see how I go. I may take you up on that offer. 👍 ¡Felices fiestas para ti también!