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The Island
Jack Underwood
‘She draws from her mind the image of a giant steel girder, pictures it smashing through the wall of the bar, obliterating everything, legs and arms reaching and waving.’
Sorry to Disturb You
Jack Underwood
The only thing scarier than ghosts are the ghosts working at a call center.
Open Water
Deb Olin Unferth
She had already imagined it all, so much so that when she finally did see him, she felt unable to speak.
To the Ocean
Deb Olin Unferth
‘At the desk they said they encouraged guests not to walk, but she was determined’
Best Book of 2010: Mr Chartwell, by Rebecca Hunt
Emma Jane Unsworth
‘Hunt writes with brio, the visceral often blooming into the mystical.’
Naples is Closed
Barry Unsworth
‘Naples had always been high on the list of places I wanted to visit‘.
The Lens Factory
John Updike
‘It made him feel lopsided, this sense of being plucked at by nervousness and dread.’
Getting The Words Out
John Updike
‘No, it is not confrontation but some wish to avoid it, some hasty wish to please, that betrays my flow of speech.’
Italo Calvino
John Updike
‘Post-modernism, if it can be said to exist at all, had in Calvino its most seductive showman.’
The Picnic Pavilion
Debbie Urbanski
‘They are wearing dresses. I am not wearing a dress. Another difference is they’re dead and I am not dead.’
Debbie Urbanski on the BRCA1 gene.