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Erotic, passionate, tragic or doomed, love is above all a game of allusiveness and nuance, of fabulous grotesques and intimate loathings. In this collection, Dan Rhodes takes fables and spins tham into suburban romances, twists domestic cosiness into mythical combat.

Strange and shocking, Timolean Vieta Come Home is a love story of sorts. Cockroft, a disgraced composer, is living in self-imposed exile in the Italian countryside, with only his loyal mongrel, Timoleon Vieta for company. Into their lives enters a mysterious and malevolent stranger known only as the Bosnian, who intrudes upon the pair's relationship, forcing Cockroft to choose between him and his dog. An original inquiry into the nature of love. 'It is charming, original, funny, biting and wise, and very nasty, especially in its ending.' The Guardian