<p><b>From the author of <i>Grey Souls</i> and <i>Brodeck''s Report</i>: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity</b><br><br><b>"A parable about modern migration that is also the kind of detective story Mikhail Bulgakov might have written: visionary and darkly humourous" Lucy Hughes-Hallet, <i>New Statesman</i> BOOKS OF THE YEAR<br></b><br><b>"A timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island" <i>The New European</i></b><b> BOOKS OF THE YEAR<br></b><br>The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea. One of the only inhabited islands (the one that takes the place of one of the dog''s teeth) is dominated by a gently smoking volcano, fringed by black volcanic beaches and under the iron rule of the heads of community