Hieroglyphics and Other Stories

A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'.

Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.

Hieroglyphics -- All that glisters -- The ice house -- Virtual pals -- Dear Santa -- Wanny the lassies -- A chitterin bite -- Me and the babbie -- Away in a manger -- The doll's house -- Brambling -- The workshop -- Marking time -- A ringin frost -- A change of hert -- Dindy -- Loast -- Zimmerobics.