Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there

Genuinely excellent

Sussex writer Hayles has a dark, skewed outlook on the world and combined with a fiendish sense of humour, it makes these stories well worth the time

Hayles nails wildly different voices with a few short strokes, then washes it all down with a flagon of treacly black humour

Hunter S Thompson would have loved these tales. Beautifully weird and told in deceptively simple prose

Hayles offers a second dose of black humour and testosterone in equal measure...hilarious

Roald Dahl on Ritalin

Hayles turns a wry, detached eye on the superficially reasonable ambitions of those driven insane by modern life...Hayles has a nicely twisted mind

Finely offbeat...original, dark, sick, nasty...and often hilarious

Damned funny. Sharp, punchy, writing, well executed ideas and lashings of irony make for a gripping read

Very good indeed. Flinty, fiery and funny

Poignant and wonderful story...concentrates, without effort, all Malouf's themes...it needs to be read