In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are w
Caroline Bird 's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation' , wrote the Hudson Review. Watering Can cel
Ferociously vital, savagely humorous, and self-mocking, this poetry collection focuses on aworld thatis inhabited by failed and successful relationships during the dizzying crisis of earl
This practical guide analyzed the career switches of 6,347 people over 50 in nearly 300 occupations. As the only record of its kind, it has horizon-broadening suggestions for people of any age who wan
In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird’s fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surre
