Explore Fiction
Sort by:
Sort by:
The Agony of Intimacy
Jeanette Winterson
‘We all knew that about the gods – that they were total sex.’
A Child’s Book of Death and Dying
Abraham Verghese
‘A fine morning mist had rolled down over Addis Ababa from the Entoto mountains, leaving a sheen on the lawn between the apartment buildings'.
The Assassin
Henk van Woerden
‘On 11 February 1955 a man could be seen wandering about the streets of Hamburg ’.
Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
Tree Thieves
Josh Weil
‘The jungle was all stillness, time kept only by the markings of his breath.’
Wheels of Progress
Gemini Wahhaj
‘Now Bangladesh survives only on aid, on other people feeding its people.’
Year of the Monkey
Fan Wu
‘I stood in front of the roller coaster, whose winding tracks looked like intestines in a demon's stomach.’
In Lana Turner’s Bedroom
Gaby Wood
‘It was because it was night-time and raining that I decided to drive up to Lana Turner's old house in Beverly Hills.’
Down in Front
Colson Whitehead
‘This is the part where we find our seats. Step on toes, suck in gut, make yourself flat as a movie screen.’
