The Master Thief, clay, bronze patina and candle, 25cm tall

Melbournites who missed the Singing Bones exhibition can still see some sculptures at Carlton's Readings bookshop on Lygon Street this week, in their front window display until Monday (with many thanks to the staff at Readings). One of these, above, illustrates one of my favourite Grimm tales about a brilliant con artist, able to convince people the world is ending using nothing more than crabs and candles.