Red Spikes

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

Awards

Winner of the 2007 CBCA Awards Book of the Year Award for Older Readers
Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award 2007
Shortlisted for the 2007 Australian Short Story Collection Award (QLD Premier's Literary Awards)
Listed on the Best Children's Book List 2007 in Publishers Weekly.

About the Author

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.