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A.L. Kennedy | First Sentence
A.L. Kennedy
‘I have never seen anyone eat figs in the street and feel I am unsurprised.’
Introducing Tatiana Salem Levy
A.L. Kennedy
Tatiana Salem Levy is introduced by previous double Best of Young British Novelist, A.L. Kennedy.
Our Adder
Richard Kerridge
‘Our zoo needed something more thrilling, more dangerous, we had decided. We wanted an adder.’
Today is a Sunny Day
Porochista Khakpour
‘For the past ten years I have been trying to write about the events that occurred on 9/11.’
Mother and Father
Thomas Kilroy
‘Like most wars, this was a war of the young.’ Thomas Kilroy on his parents’ experience of the Anglo-Irish War and the Irish civil war.
War and Peace on the Big Sandy River
Dean H. King
‘Far from the canyons of lower Manhattan or the rugged peaks of Afghanistan, 9/11 led to an unexpected breakthrough in an ancient feud.’
Like We Are
Binnie Kirshenbaum
‘My father can speak just fine. Nonetheless, he does not speak to me; nor I to him.’
The Casualties
Katie Kitamura
‘The following are some of the Japanese players who also appeared in the major leagues during the Age of Ichiro.’
Progress in Prague
Ivan Klíma
‘People in the West are aware of the hardship and bewilderment that accompanied the political and economic transformation of central and eastern Europe after 1989.'
