The Seventh Man
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My Father’s Australia
Thomas Keneally
My ninety-two-year-old father, like many of his generation, grew up in the bush and lives...
The Diary of A Political Idiot
Jasmina Tesanovic
‘Belgrade is rocking, shaking, trembling. We are entering the second phase of NATO intervention. The sirens went off today for nearly twenty-four hours.’
Hawk
Joy Williams
‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’
The Waiter’s Wife
Zadie Smith
‘Two plates smashed to the floor. She patted her stomach to indicate her unborn child and pointed to the pieces, “Hungry?”’
Inside Iraq
James Buchan
‘My first sight of modern Iraq was a colossal fairy-lit head of Saddam Hussein hurtling out of the darkness, as if from another galaxy of despotism and violence.’
Telling Him
Edmund White
‘The worst thing about knowing he was positive was that now he was under an obligation to tell his partners. Not that he informed the man he picked up in the park or the guy he lured over on the phone chatline.’
The Problem Outside
Linda Polman
‘About 150,000 refugees, standing shoulder to shoulder on a mountain plateau the size of three football fields.’
On Observation Hill
Francis Spufford
‘Here I stand on Observation Hill. If the Devil made me an offer at this moment, I feel sure I would accept.’
The Man with Two Heads
Elena Lappin
‘To break our trust in these memories would be a cruel thing; to question their veracity, equally cruel.’
Bad Nature
Javier Marías
‘I saw him slipping into belligerence, the ghost of James Dean descended upon him and sent a shiver down my spine.’
Goal 666
Stacey Richter
‘I began to feel almost ill with a kind of unpleasant pleasure, like being tickled.’
How Pinkie Killed a Man
Adewale Maja-Pearce
‘It was two years since I'd been in Zambia and I was looking forward to seeing Ronnie and his cousin, Pinkie’.
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes
‘Are these great journeys examples of learned or inherited behaviour?’
Arrival
Albino Ochero-Okello
‘As I stood in front of the immigration officer, I was already worrying about my answers to the questions he might ask’.
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Dale Peck
‘Love is like trash: it's not something you hoard, it's merely something you don't waste, like heat, or water, or paper’.
Anthony Bailey | A London View
Anthony Bailey
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
Literary London
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson explores historical London through four very different maps.
Howard Hodgkin | A London View
Howard Hodgkin
Interior views are certainly more comfortable to look at than those outside.
Big Dome
Will Self
‘I began to conceive of the city itself as a kind of loving parent, vast but womb-like and surmounted by an overarching dome.’
Iain Sinclair | A London View
Iain Sinclair
‘The point of a good view is that it encapsulates, and gives relief from, the journey that has led up to it.’
The Man in The Van
Lucretia Stewart
‘On Friday 20 March 1998 at ten-thirty in the morning I was lying in the bath, washing my hair’.
Julian Barnes | A London View
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes shares a view of London from his childhood.
With a Bang
Helen Simpson
‘There had been an unbelievable amount of talk about the weather, not to mention the end of the world and so on’.
David Sylvester | A London View
David Sylvester
‘When you turn your back on the view, you're face to face with the Western Pumping Station across the street and its campanile-like tower.’
Dame Shirley
Jay Rayner
Dame Shirley Porter would not agree to talk in her flat in Israel, overlooking the...
Sohoitis
Ian Hamilton
What brings me to this place, this pass? It’s four-fifteen in the afternoon on Charlotte...
