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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (UK title, Kissing the Witch) (New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 1997), my third book of fiction and first story collection, is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson).
Three and a Half Deaths (UK/Ireland ebook, 2011). An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence and a near-death experience. Published by Picador as a Short Reads ebook in December 2011, bringing together four fact-inspired stories from France, the USA and Canada.
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (New York: Harcourt; London: Virago, 2002), my fifth book of fiction and second story collection, is a sequence of short stories about peculiar incidents in the history of the British Isles, from a 1300s Satanist to an 1800s animal-rights campaign.
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (New York: Knopf, 2010; Toronto: Random House of Canada, 2010; paperback LA: Cleis, 2011). A dozen years in the making, Inseparable is a witty and scholarly guide to storylines of passion between women in Western (English, but also a lot of French, Italian, German, Spanish) literature since medieval times.