All the Bananas Ive Never Eaten

Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection Who are the stars of these brief lives? A boy who steals a trundlewheel. An astronaut. A betrayed wife. A man jealous of his lovers chickens. Commuters. Glampers. Psychotic twins. What do they have in common? Nothing except the funny-haha and funny-strange conditions of their lives that bring them joy or misery and make us laugh at them and pity them and love them too. What happens when you lose both your eyes to squash accidents? When you inherit a shop full of curios? When you fall for the spirit of a famous murderer? When your sons a tramp? When the one you love is about to kill herself? Or has the Ganges delta in her bloodshot eye? When your butcher doesnt know anything about meat? Discovering the answers to these questions will knock you sideways and show that the more we understand about peoples oddity, the more we come to appreciate their essential humanity. In these tiny stories, written over a period of a few short months, Tony Williams pushes the limits of prose fiction, homing in on the moments that sum up lifetimes and their complicated, bittersweet emotions. Each story crams a whole world into a couple of pages you can sneak them one at a time whenever you have a spare minute, or gobble the lot with a cast of hundreds in a single day.