Michelle Kelly

"You're short the geeky-looking guy at the corner shop had said." Yeah? Well you're ugly - and I'll grow," Riley had retorted. But what if he never did? What if he stayed pigmy-sized forever? Riley's biggest problem is that he's short. His other problem is Kelly - she's not talking to him and he doesn't know why. Then, to top it all off, in a moment of pure insanity he thumps the biggest bully in school. Vince McGerk vows to get even, but Riley doesn't know when or how. The only thing he knows for sure is that payback is certain.

Sally Gelee is a commitment phobe looking for lasting love. She works in a rest home, it's a nice, safe environment; the men there aren't fast enough to catch her and they pose no threat. Being a commitment-phobe, that suits her, but she's also a hopeless romantic searching for forever love. Sally keeps a box of exs in the garage; a catalogue of her past dating disasters, to remind her of what she doesn't want in a relationship. She uses a thigh test find Mr Right, if his thigh doesn't feel right then he's not the one. It can't just be a nice thigh; it has to be the right thigh. Just when she thinks she has finally found her dream man - he plays hard to get. Meanwhile her stalker ex, Gone Don, won't stay gone and pops up at random, freaking her out. And, the new next- door neighbour is a right cretin. Will she manage to conquer her commitment phobia and find lasting love, or will she run?

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls the international literary space, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title World Literature in Motion highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.