A Cabinet of Small Inventions

This short story collection offers a tour through genres as though rummaging through a well-loved curiosity shop, every drawer revealing something entirely unlike the last. In Three Small Wishes, a modest favour spirals into unexpected consequence; The Franchise Game peeks behind the glossy façade of corporate ambition; and The Book Worm burrows into the dangers of reading a little too hungrily. From the time-spliced melancholy of Frozen in Amber to the whimsical mystery of The Bird in the Hat, the tone darts and glimmers.
The Dust of Your Dreams uncovers the strange persistence of the imagination, while Pip Norris and the Amazing Flying Saucer delivers a gleeful nod to retro adventure. A Western turn waits in Three Silver Dollars, followed by the chilly mischief of Scariest. Snowman. Ever. Silent Knight enters the shadows with a seasonal tale tinged with menace, and Mister Mortimer's Magical Toy Shop opens its doors to something far more unsettling than clockwork wonders.
In Victoriana, the past is not merely another country-it is a country with teeth. A surreal rebellion begins in We Want All of Your Jam, and in the delightfully peculiar Tee hee Quodshe and clepe the window to, language itself becomes the playground. To The Lighthouse finds a soul adrift in storm and memory, while Where The Bloody Hell Are You? uncovers the comedy, chaos, and mild panic of the everyday gone awry.
The collection closes with The Dust of Your Dreams (Reprise)-a final return to the realm where imagination refuses to stay politely in its box. A book of stories for every mood and none, this is a celebration of variety: comic, eerie, nostalgic, surreal, adventurous, and occasionally quite impossible to classify.