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Against Travel Writing
Robyn Davidson
’Shortly after its publication in 1980 I was surprised to learn that I had written a travel book’.
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Paul Auster
‘The single inhabitant of an asteroid that orbits around a tertiary moon of Pluto, visible only through the strongest telescope.’
Obedience
Ian Parker
‘Herbert Winer, who has not tortured anyone for nearly forty years, lives in New Haven, Connecticut, as he did in the early Sixties.’
Ian Parker on authority, ethics and human behaviour.
Paolo
Tim Parks
‘My last glimpse of Paolo was on the platform at Verona station when I pointed him out to the police.’
In Search of the Third Way
Roy Hattersley
‘The evidence suggests that the Third Way is a reactive rather than a creative force, a response rather than an original idea.’
New New World
Peter Conrad
‘I left Australia at the age of twenty, carrying with me everything I thought I would need.’
Marrying Eddie
Robyn Davidson
‘By the end of our journey together we had signally failed to understand each other, yet an unlikely, even unprecedented connection had formed.’
The Weeping Pom
Howard Jacobson
‘I hold the view that Australia is a more sweetly civilized country than England, but I don’t want people to think I’ve gone soft in the head.’
