The beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhuman appetite, the seemingly harmless couple who are serial killers, and the home-alone woman who is petrified someone is out to kill her. These terrifying tales come together in one anthology.

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

Set against the turbulent mid 1980s of money, privatisation, unions and dramatic media evolution: A lifelong group of friends find themselves at the bad end of a redundancy pay-out and invest their savings into a racehorse, hoping that one final race can turn their fortunes around.

Six strangers from differing backgrounds are drawn together at one moment, after which nothing will be the same.

A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child; born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite.

A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching classic western movies. When she finds a gun in her late father's loft she stands up to her tormentors, just like her gunslinging heroes.

A failing and desperate novelist finds his muse in a drunk, psychotic decorator who sends his life into chaos and murder - but, just possibly, genius.

In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over. Harry deeply loves his boyfriend Reuben, but after being humiliated by a failed birthday party, many drinks consumed, shows us that none of us truly knows what we are capable of. For Reuben he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside, sometimes it’s with us all along.

Ever sat on an underground train and felt you were being watched? You might have been an unsuspecting participant in a game of Tube Poker, the gambling phenomenon that is sweeping the globe.