Passionate, exhilarating and darkly humorous, 'The Burn' is an extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist.

A very great writer in his own time and his own place --Literary Review

His novels and stories alike are marked by wild wit, ingenious flights of fancy and a leveller faith in the power of the common person to take charge of his or her destiny in the face of even the worst afflictions. --Sunday Telegraph