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1911, The Other Revolution
Isabel Hilton
‘Anniversaries, of course, can be a two-edged sword: they invite historical reappraisal.’
1979
Aminatta Forna
‘What happened in 1979 has happened many times before and many times since, in places where people have set themselves free and believed with all their hearts that the freedom they had fought for was real and lasting, only to be recaptured.’
A Beheading
Mohsin Hamid
‘The words are just dribbling out of my mouth. I can’t stop them. They’re like tears.’
A Conversation with the Head of Orpheus
Russell Hoban
‘Far, far away in the night are live human beings whose breathing can be heard as they speak, and they're looking at their illuminated dials as I look at mine at this end of the darkness that curves with the night miles to the heave and swell of the ocean dawn.’
A Dynasty of Album Cover Art
Lemi Ghariokwu
‘The music is as powerful as it gets and beneath his knife-edge, cutting sarcasm, Fela’s voice rages.’
A Fight in Bethnal Green
Jeremy Harding
‘There was no sizing up, no graceful footwork, none of the rhetoric of the game: this was unmitigated invective.’
A Hand Made Art
Per Gedin
‘This new kind of ‘planned’ best-seller invariably influences every other form of book production, most notably that of the book selling.’
