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The Third Pole
Gavin Francis
‘I came to the Himalayas not because of a dream of mountains or of animals, but because of a map.’
Shackleton’s Medical Kit
Gavin Francis
‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine at the start of the twenty-first century.’
Dreams of Reason
Ruth Franklin
‘We know that nightmares are unreal, yet they torment us all the same.’
Bone Litter
Marian Botsford Fraser
‘There is a tiny skull on a pillow of bright green moss, and arm and leg bones neatly crossed, as if they had just been gently placed there in mourning.’
Introduction: Best of Young British Novelists 4
John Freeman
‘We live in unreaderly times, but our belief is that these novelists will be exceptions to the general rule of irrelevance faced by writers today.’
Notes on Craft
Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.
Louise Bourgeois as I Knew Her
Jean Frémon
‘The portrait is built up of tiny strokes, one added upon another, like dashes of pencil.’ Translated from the French by Cole Swensen.
Patrick French | First Sentence
Patrick French
‘In Edwardian days, if you were growing up in England (though Maurice was from Ireland) your life was regimented.’
First Catch Your Puffin
Sean French
‘A man is rescued after years stranded on a desert island with two companions, one of whom died.’
Notes Toward the Memoirs of a Book Thief
Rodrigo Fresán
‘There’s never enough money to buy all the books we need to read or simply admire, hold, caress, knowing that we have them, that they’re ours.’
Non-fiction by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Borges and Me, and Me
Rodrigo Fresán
‘What would be the point of writing anything if I went down in history as the person who killed Borges?’
