<p>Strange stories about houses, homes and families</p><p>A sentient house is overprotective of its occupants, a husband and wife cope with loneliness on a lengthy space flight, a Greenland shark mounts a supernatural attack on a mother and son, two sisters live in fear of the destroyed world beyond their walls, an engineer sabotages a post-apocalyptic holiday village, a camping trip turns a family feral, a man defragments his mind and another splices a rival&rsquo;s brain patterns onto his own.&nbsp;</p><p>Includes the novella <em>Carus</em><em>&nbsp;' Mitch</em>.</p><p>&rdquo;More <em>The Road</em> than <em>The Hunger Games</em>, blending a John Wyndham-esque melancholy with a dose of existential despair, <em>Carus ' Mitch</em> is a compelling, unconventional page-turner. Once I started reading it, I couldn&rsquo;t put it down until I reached the end.&rdquo; <strong>Lynda Rucker</strong></p><p>&ldquo;<em>Carus ' Mitch</em> is punchy and scary and tense and genuinely moving. The central portrait of the book&rsquo;s sibling relationship captures its mixture of friction and love spot on, with heartbreaking precision. Tim Major is an exceptional writer.&rdquo; <strong>Adam Roberts</strong></p>