There’s no way of getting around this. Lots of people (including me) are releasing really cool books in time for the holidays. I’m just going to have to pimp them all. Sorry.

First up is the latest in the Twelve Planets series of mini-collections by fabulous Australian women writers. This one is Caution: Contains Small Parts, by the one and only Kirstyn McDermott. She of the Pointy Stick offers four short stories which, we are promised, “will haunt you long after their final pages are turned.” Yeah, that would be Kirstyn alright.

Also, talking of Kirstyn, a new episode of The Writer and The Critic went live last week. Mondy is still tweeting, so I guess he survived the recording yet again. I must give it a listen. I do so enjoy his screams.