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The Diary of A Political Idiot
Jasmina Tesanovic
‘Belgrade is rocking, shaking, trembling. We are entering the second phase of NATO intervention. The sirens went off today for nearly twenty-four hours.’
Inside Iraq
James Buchan
‘My first sight of modern Iraq was a colossal fairy-lit head of Saddam Hussein hurtling out of the darkness, as if from another galaxy of despotism and violence.’
The Problem Outside
Linda Polman
‘About 150,000 refugees, standing shoulder to shoulder on a mountain plateau the size of three football fields.’
The Man with Two Heads
Elena Lappin
‘To break our trust in these memories would be a cruel thing; to question their veracity, equally cruel.’
Bad Nature
Javier Marías
‘I saw him slipping into belligerence, the ghost of James Dean descended upon him and sent a shiver down my spine.’
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes
‘Are these great journeys examples of learned or inherited behaviour?’
Arrival
Albino Ochero-Okello
‘As I stood in front of the immigration officer, I was already worrying about my answers to the questions he might ask’.
Anthony Bailey | A London View
Anthony Bailey
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
Howard Hodgkin | A London View
Howard Hodgkin
Interior views are certainly more comfortable to look at than those outside.
