Explore Fiction
Sort by:
Sort by:
White Men’s Boats
Giles Foden
‘Deo Gratias stood on the deck of the Liemba with his prisoners at his feet. I leaned on the rail, studiously casual.’
After Hours
A. M. Homes
‘They have created stage sets, backdrops, candy-coloured scenarios, Kodacolor bright landscapes onto which you can project your fantasies.’
Hippocrates
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘Pain informs. Pain draws a map. Doctors resolve to relieve pain, but pain is information, and to lose it is to lose something valuable.’
Dragon Island | New Voices
Laura Fellowes
‘This is a wartime story. It is the spring of 1943 and Europe is burning; look down and see.’
Original Message
Austin Grossman
‘So tomorrow we might be on the same side. Unless you’re a triple agent, in which case we already were on the same side.’
The Silkworms
Janet Frame
‘Nothing has changed, Edgar said. What new event is written into their history? None. Where is their future? Nowhere. Are they against or for progress? It was dark when Edgar took the box outside down to the rubbish heap and sprinkled the dead moths upon the ashes of the diseased pawpaw.’ Janet Frame on an unsettling natural process.
Nothing But Ghosts
Judith Hermann
‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘
Fox Deceived | New Voices
Hannah Gersen
‘Sandra was stuck at the traffic lights where route forty hit the turnpike. She was thinking about strawberries.’
