‘Prayer for the Living’ was originally published as ‘A Prayer from the Living’ in the Guardian Magazine in 1993

‘A Sinister Perfection’ was first published in Callaloo in 2015

‘Ancient Ties of Karma’ was first published in Callaloo in 2015

‘Mysteries’ was first published in the Sunday Times Magazine in 2009

‘Tulips’ was first published in the newspaper catalogue Turkish Tulips in 2017

‘The Lie’ was first delivered at the Italian literary festival La Milanisiana in 2012 and first published by the Sunday Times in 2011

‘Alternate Realities are True’ was originally broadcast as ‘The Multiverse Murders’ with Audible in 2018

‘The Story in the Next Room’ was first published in the booklet The Mystery Feast in 2015

‘The Overtaker’ was first published in the Daily Mail magazine

‘Raft’ first appeared in the booklet The Waters of Humanity, published by CCCB, Barcelona in 2019

‘Don Ki-Otah and the Ambiguity of Reading’ originally appeared as ‘Don Quixote and the Ambiguity of Reading’ in the anthology Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare, published by And Other Stories in 2016

‘A Street’ appeared in a shorter form in the Shortlist digital daily Mr Hyde in 2016