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Brief Encounters
Richard Murphy
‘The year was 1944. The Germans had started to rain their first flying bombs on England’.
The Final Days of Dr Doe
Lynda Schuster
‘In the summer of 1990, tens of thousands of Liberians died in a civil war of remarkable brutality. Many more starved to death'.
Do I Owe You Something?
Michael Mewshaw
‘In the fall of 1971, Rome enjoyed an unbroken skein of bright crisp mornings and balmy afternoons that stretched on into November’.
September, 1973
Ariel Dorfman
‘It's that simple: there is a day in my past, a day many years ago in Santiago de Chile, when I should have died and did not.’
Captain Mbaye Diagne
Mark Doyle
‘The Rwandan town of Nyamata is thirty kilometres south of Kigali, the capital'.
Emma
Deborah Scroggins
‘When I think of Nasir, I remember the sun. Nothing in that place escaped it.’
The War of The Words
Alexander Stille
‘The world in which he grew up, a pastoral nomadic life that developed over centuries in isolation, is disappearing’.
The Lepers of Moyo
Paul Theroux
‘Boarding the train in the African darkness just before dawn was like climbing into the body of a huge, dusty monster'.
The Separate World of Seaports
James Hamilton-Paterson & Alex Majoli
‘I am aged eight or nine, on a family outing by Thames water bus in London’.
