Love Doesn't Work

Enduring her jet-set life in Sardinia, a woman has learnt to sublimate her erotic longings caused by her husband's impotence, until a visitor offers a more immediate solution

A claustrophobic banker fears the destruction of his relationship when he discovers a yawning hole beneath the streets of Stockholm

The arrival of a gorgeous Russian piano prodigy inspires a screen-writer to look beyond his treadmill London existence

And while fixing a leaking toilet in the wilds of Sweden, Ingmar Bergman explains the predicament of lovers in a hostile world

Love Doesn't Work offers classic storytelling with profound, startling insights into human desire and its shortfalls. Inspired by the ancient Cathars, these seven tales present a vision of life as an inevitable struggle against ignorance, darkness and sexual confusion. Devilish and playful in tone, they leave the reader with a sense of outraged satisfaction and delight.

Henning Koch was born in Sweden in 1962 but has spent most of his life in England. Spain and Italy He has worked as a screenwriter and literary translator. Love Doesn't Work is his first published story collection. His first novel The Maggot People will also be published by Dzanc Books.