I would also like to thank all the editors, who asked me to contribute to their magazines, collections, radio series and other forms of publication, as follows:
‘Out of the Burning House’, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 2004.
‘Mélusine: A Mermaid Tale’, first published (in French translation) in Marie-Claude de Brunhoff: Les Théatres immobiles, ed. René de Ceccatty (Paris: Seuil, 2008).
‘Brigit’s Cell’, first broadcast as ‘Birgitta’s Cell’ on BBC Radio 4, in series ‘I Want to Be Alone’, 2005.
‘A Chatelaine in the Making’, first published as ‘The Isle of Lanterns; Or, The Young Man in the Gondola of the Air Balloon (After Hoffmann’s Nutcracker Suite)’, Harper’s Bazaar, December 2010.
‘Red Lightning’, written for The Art Fund’s campaign for the Staffordshire Hoard, first published in Art Quarterly, Autumn 2010.
‘Watermark’, original to this collection, prompted by an invitation from Michel Jeanneret, for which many thanks.
‘The Family Friend’, written for Alan Howard Reads on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast 2007.
‘Worm Wrangling’, first published in Heat, ed. Ivor Indyk (Sydney: 2003).
‘After the Fox’, first published in Don’t Know a Good Thing: The Asham Award Short-Story Collection, ed. Kate Pullinger (London, Bloomsbury, 2006).
‘Ladybird, Ladybird’, first published in Harper’s Bazaar, December 2005.
‘Item, One Tortoiseshell Bag’, first published in AnOther Magazine, Issue 27, Autumn/Winter 2014.
‘Letter to the Unknown Soldier’, first published online at www.1418now.org.uk, ed. Kate Pullinger and Neil Bartlett, 2014.
‘Forget My Fate’, first published in Midsummer Nights, ed. Jeanette Winterson, 2009.
‘Dolorosa’, first published in ‘Cadavre exquis (for Aura Satz)’, for her exhibition, 2006.
‘See No Evil’, first published in Short Fiction, ed. Anthony Caleshu, Issue 4, 2010.
‘Mink’, first broadcast in series Feminine Mystique BBC Radio 4, 2013.
‘A Rare Visit’, first published online at http://1001.net.au/story/519, performed by Barbara Campbell, 2006.
‘Sing For Me’, original to this collection reworked from version, first broadcast as ‘Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant’, in From Fact to Fiction, BBC Radio 4, 20 June 2010.
‘Breadcrumbs’, first published online at http://1001.net.au/story/206 as ‘At Night through a Gap’, performed by Barbara Campbell, 2006.
‘The Difference in the Dose’, performed at Bath Music Festival with the Royal College of Art, Bath, 2009, first published in Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol 24, no.2, (2010).
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