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Gibraltar
Ian Jack
‘Everyone had theories which to a greater or lesser extent conflicted with the story in court.’
Ian Jack on the inquest into the SAS killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar.
Graft vs. Host
Colin Grant
‘Oftentimes it took so long to ferry the injured that rather than send an ambulance the A&E doctors might as well have sent a hearse.’
Greg Jackson | First Sentence
Greg Jackson
‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’
Growing up with the King of Pop
Marlon James
‘The thrill of Thriller was being part of something global and local at once.’
Guatemala | Snapshot
Eduardo Halfon
‘The roads of Guatemala have always been its best and worst theatre.’
Guddu and Pintu | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘They examine roads the way I imagine wine-tasters assess a new vintage or a strange grape.’
Hajiriya and Gajiriya | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The day after my visit to the silica factories in Godhra, I am taken to meet three dead men.’
Han Suyin: A Friendship
Aamer Hussein
'Han Suyin, elegant postcolonial diva avant la lettre, icon of the new, nonaligned Asia, thorn in the side of the dying British Empire and the American Right.'
