Confessions

Former fabulist Peter Burt turns Father Confessor for this latest volume of sensational exposés. Boldly breaking all professional taboos, he reveals the shocking secrets whispered to him through the confessional grille by a whole rogues' gallery of unrepentant sinners - from a DIY universe creator to two suburban friends who practise wife-swapping by means of astral projection, from an undercover literary agent to a large molecule who has deserted the military. Shudder at the dark secrets Father Burt has courageously brought out into the light of day - and ponder whether any spell in purgatory would be long enough to cleanse this vast array of miscreants of their heinous crimes.