The Rider and Other Stories

Here are 27 tales so varied, so clever, so gentle in their humour you wouldn't believe they cold all be crammed in one book. We met prodigies, orphans, wolf-hounds, flying horses, gamblers, goddesses, academics and acrobats. . . we see a genius and his violin, a retired soldier and his restaurant, a young woman and her dentist (thrice), a teenager and her chance to save humanity (guess how!) and a Damascene convert in the Himalayas. The whole Bo borscht of scenarios and zany characters has the flavour of true storytelling about it. But there are serious notes too: the fingers on the keyboard can fire a gun. . . so read on!