More Afraid of You
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Heraldry
George Steiner
‘Papa embodied, as did every corner of our Paris home, the tenor, the prodigality and glow of Jewish-European and Central-European emancipation.’
Lover
Joyce Carol Oates
‘You won't know me, won't see my face. Unless you see my face. And then it will be too late.’
Maori War
Peter Walker
‘It would be hard to overstate the importance of genealogy in Maori society.’
The Vulgar Soul
John Biguenet
‘She got skinny and became a clairvoyant. And she wasn't even a stigmatic.’
India! The Golden Jubilee: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’
Blood
Urvashi Butalia
‘Stories are all that people have, stories that rarely breach the frontiers of family and religious community’
Kashmir
James Buchan
‘I see in an instant what has brought people to the valley for four centuries.’
Five Hours to Simla
Anita Desai
‘He had his hands deep in his pockets, and his face was lined with a frown deeply embedded with dust.’
Kabir Street
R. K. Narayan
‘Nagaraj had begun to have doubts about his standing in his ancestral home’
After Gandhi
Trevor Fishlock
‘His room is as he left it, furnished with a carpet, a spinning wheel, a low white table, a mattress and cushion.’
An Accidental Spy
Phillip Knightley
‘The CIA had become concerned about Soviet influence in India in the early 1960s.’
Sampati
Vikram Seth
‘Why do you cry?’
Vikram Seth’s Petrarchan sonnet based on a character in the Ramayana.
Bombay Notebooks
V.S. Naipaul
August 20 The monsoon rain was blown on the concrete by the aeroplane as it...
Love of the World
John McGahern
It is very quiet here. Nothing much ever happens. We have learned to tell the...
The Enemy Within
John Banville
‘Feeling almost skittish all day. Exhausted now yet feverish also, like a child at the end of a party.’
Imagining Scotland
Fintan O’Toole
‘There they found a man and a woman dressed in face masks, rubber gloves and white coats standing behind a white table on which were placed an assortment of tools’
Assault by Water
Tim Binding
‘Having come here for a purpose, to trace the fault line of his own history, he searches for the year that saw its inception.’
God Bless the Squire
Norman Lewis
‘From the age of five I attended Forty Hill Church School. Studies began every day with half an hour's catechism.’
Uncles
Jonathan Meades
‘Uncle Donald the boffin, Uncle Cecil the pharmacist, Uncle Edgar the optician and Uncle Edgar the boho restaurateur’
