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Books Do Furnish a Room
Penelope Lively
‘The shelves say something about the person who has stocked them; they say much.’
Threshold | State of Mind
Barry Lopez
‘What we’re about to see is greater than the thing you’re running from.’
Talking Italish
Antonio Melechi
‘For my mother and father, the past and present had both become foreign countries.’
Terra Nova
Robert Moor
Robert Moor remembers hitch-hiking across Newfoundland: ‘The way to pronounce Newfoundland, Bill and Sue instructed me, is to remember that it rhymes with understand.’
I come from a place on your bucket list
Deepti Kapoor
Deepti Kapoor on travel, authenticity and the peculiarity of being Indian in Uganda.
Yet Trouble Came
Phillip Lewis
Phillip Lewis on writing emotional autobiography. ‘A sincere observation followed by a sincere utterance is the most powerful and effective form of communication.’
The Bonds of Trauma
Daniel Magariel
‘An often-unacknowledged truth about families that deal with addiction is that the bonds of trauma can be as challenging to quit as the habit itself.’
Olivia Laing | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Olivia Laing
‘Which bodies can go where might be the central question of our century.’
Karan Mahajan | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Karan Mahajan
‘Too often, a kind of travel writing – especially the novel set abroad in an exotic locale – feels like a way of allegorizing and escaping problems at home.’
Robert Macfarlane | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Robert Macfarlane
‘The best writers rose to the challenge by seeking not originality of destination, but originality of form.’
