Deirdre Sullivan

Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with new friends and old, but she is still not quite ready for the big red slide.

'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the...

So what is the most innocent, least spooky thing you can imagine? An egg, right? Right. It's perfectly smooth all over. It's totally natural. It can't talk. It can't put a curse on you. It doesn't have a soul so it can't haunt you. Hah! Wrong! How about an egg that just won't go away. Or one that hatches and out comes … Read the book and find out – if you dare! Book 8 in the Nightmare Club series, featuring the breakfast item from hell – an...