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Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
‘The map of the old horizon was like being haunted by a grotesque fairy tale, something that when voiced came out not as words but as sounds in the aftermath of an atrocity.’
Better Protect America
Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswanathan on the absurdities of the US Border Patrol Agency. ‘The new security was going to be unpredictable, by design.’
The Island
Jack Underwood
‘She draws from her mind the image of a giant steel girder, pictures it smashing through the wall of the bar, obliterating everything, legs and arms reaching and waving.’
Night of the Gnomes
J.R. Wilcock
‘The plan was quite simple: Güendolina would invite him into the bedroom and persuade him to make love to her until he was utterly exhausted.’
Witchcraft Today
Diane Williams
‘Two women appeared embracing two of a kind – that is each woman held onto a globular lamp base that had luster.’
The Beauty and the Bat
Diane Williams
‘I knew who she was well enough, by then – a competent woman in earnest who didn’t like me.’
Winnie and the Innocence of the World
Joost Zwagerman
‘This is how I became Winnie’s clandestine, outcast and utterly powerless guardian angel.’
The Mountain Road
William Wall
‘Funeral homes are always cold. There were pine benches in lines like a church. They had been varnished recently and there was that heady smell. It reminded me of my father’s boat, the wheelhouse brightwork newly touched up. It was the smell of childhood.’
The Beacon & The Bane
Malerie Willens
‘In spite of my pining and missing, neither man seemed fully formed and I felt a little lonely in the presence of both.’
Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
