Mythical country: the fantasy writer tells us about her new novel

Lives and how to live them

Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch

A happy band of travellers goes in search of a lost Japan

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity