The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners All have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.