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Apnoea
Daniel Galera
‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.
The Witch’s Dog
Helon Habila
‘The old witch, Nana Mudo, lived alone with her dog on the other side of the grove.’
The Development Game
Leonard Frank
‘We are six on the mission to the North-west Frontier: an old Japanese, a Korean, an American, a Bangladeshi, a Dutch girl, me. ... We've got four weeks to come up with a project for, say, thirty million dollars.’
Suite in Dark Matter
Erin Frances Fisher
‘When her eyes adjust to the dark she sees it is full, so full: the lights from long dead stars churn elliptics, spiral with dying vibrations and decaying harmonics.’
Trying to Understand
Philip Hensher
‘I liked his humourless intelligence, so redundant and so excessive in an MP.’
Rose on the broken
Maggie Gee
‘They're only wild flowers. I wish I could buy you real roses. But to her they became the real roses, frail petals, each centre a sun. And they smelled of sun and beginnings, as clear and thin as the water.’
Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah
‘In a world in which coercion is the norm, a human trafficker must have underlings as well.’
The Red Coral Bracelet
Judith Hermann
‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’
