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Issue 43

The Brass Bar

Louis de Bernières

‘In the late seventies I was desperately attempting to avoid having a career by doing what I supposed were 'real' jobs.‘

Issue 43

Born Again

Anne Billson

‘I had no time for vices.‘

Issue 43

Listed for Trial

Tibor Fischer

‘He didn't like attending County Hall.‘

Issue 43

Lessons in Inhaling

Esther Freud

‘Lisa was meeting her father for supper.‘

Issue 43

Sharps and Flats

Alan Hollinghurst

‘The first boy I was in love with was called Mark Lyle.‘

Issue 43

The Gourmet

Kazuo Ishiguro

‘And I am informed it is a very reliable ghost, as ghosts go.‘

Issue 43

Failing to Fall

A.L. Kennedy

‘This is the one thing I know from the minute I lift the receiver and slip that voice inside my ear: it will happen.‘

Issue 43

Reference Points

Philip Kerr

‘It was eating oysters, four hundred of the bivalve sons-of-bitches, that finally killed my father, in a theatre-bar off St Martin's Lane.‘

Issue 43

Letters from Wellfleet

Adam Lively

‘I promised you an account of the town's musical life.‘

Issue 43

Neighbours

Adam Mars-Jones

‘Terry and I entertained hundreds of couples over the years, and I don't think we were unusual.‘

Issue 43

Scale

Will Self

‘Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.‘

Issue 43

Wavery’s Last Post

Nicholas Shakespeare

‘At five in the afternoon, the Bahia de Abyla sailed out of Algeciras.‘

Issue 43

Heavy Weather

Helen Simpson

‘The baby was now three months old, and she had not had more than half an hour alone since his birth in February.’

Issue 43

The Poetics of Sex

Jeanette Winterson

‘My lover Picasso is going through her Blue Period. In the past her periods have always been red.’

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