The Cuervo Brothers
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Mao Comes to Sydney
Georgia Blain
‘After all, it was only politics, and I was too young to understand.’
Twins
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Separation has been, perhaps, the single biggest determining influence in my life.’
Resolution
Jim Shepard
‘Everything suggests an ongoing and immemorial enervation. A kind of trance in the air.’
Where is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
James Lasdun
‘The fire department didn't have a tall enough ladder to reach his body.’
On the Road Again: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Switzerland absolutely fulfils our idea of the picturesque’
We Went to Saigon
Tia Wallman
‘I thought that this must be the sort of plane that crashes. What were a few more dead, travelling to the city of the dead?’
Bye-Bye Natalia
Michel Faber
‘Natalia picks at the frayed black lace of her dress while the photograph of her American penpal loads into the computer.’
Cary Grant’s Suit
Todd McEwen
‘North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.’
Trenitalia
Tim Parks
‘It was explained to me that in Italy a formality is a sort of dormant volcano.’
Lavande
Ann Beattie
‘It seemed impossible, but probably everyone marries thinking such a thing impossible.’
We Have No Minorities
George Bowater
‘The state can burn houses but it can't stop the rain, can't round up all the sheep. It isn't an easy place to control.’
The End of Travel
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’
Homage to Mount Desert Island
Mark Haworth-Booth
‘A cow was on the wrong side of the fence on Crooked Road on May 26.’
Introduction: God’s Own Countries
Ian Jack
‘The idea of God as creator and custodian died, and many words in the old vocabulary were robbed of their potency.’
A Prisoner of the Holy War
Wendell Steavenson
‘Thayr held out. He would not betray his country, he would not betray his leader.’
In the Clearing
Andrew Brown
‘I asked where the path was to the rapids. He looked at me as if all his suspicions had been confirmed.’
The Lord in his Wisdom
Jackie Kay
‘I realize with a fresh horror that Jonathan is seeing me as the sin’
Tales Out of School
Kees Beekmans
‘But it seems I’ve said something stupid again, and blasphemous to boot.’
Kiss Daddy!
John Borneman
‘The whole family giggles and I am standing there, holding his father’s hand, looking into his eyes, hesitating. Time seems to slow down.’
Cruising
Kamran Nazeer
‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
Jesus Who?
Alison Smith
‘Jesus came walking across the lawn, a grin on his face. I waved. “Hi, Jesus.”’
St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell
‘Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.’
Nadeem Aslam | God and Me
Nadeem Aslam
‘I loved—and continue to love—the pages of certain copies of the Qur’an.’
God and Me
Geoff Dyer
‘All my religious experiences—if we can call them that—have been drug-related.’
God and Me
Pankaj Mishra
‘I was unfortunate to know a Christianity so tainted by colonialism and racial distrust.’
God and Me
Diana Athill
‘Perhaps it’s just that the human mind is incapable of imagining anything that doesn’t begin.’
