David Tierney

One hundred years ago, on a stormy starless night in the African rainforest, a gorilla is born. The elders prophesise that the ape’s life will be filled with many misfortunes. Normally, I’d be sceptical about prophecies, but these gorilla…

In the first ten panels of Sabrina, we see a woman carefully and silently searching a house until she happily pulls a large grey cat out from beneath a bed. Later, we have two men standing on opposite sides of a door, one with a takeaway…

Padraig Kenny’s children’s novel, Tin, opens with an engineer, Mr Absalom, crunching through snow with a human boy, Christopher, and a robot child for sale, Jack. Absalom swaps Jack’s red hair for brown, ‘because nobody buys gingers, awful…