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Imagining Scotland
Fintan O’Toole
‘There they found a man and a woman dressed in face masks, rubber gloves and white coats standing behind a white table on which were placed an assortment of tools’
Assault by Water
Tim Binding
‘Having come here for a purpose, to trace the fault line of his own history, he searches for the year that saw its inception.’
God Bless the Squire
Norman Lewis
‘From the age of five I attended Forty Hill Church School. Studies began every day with half an hour's catechism.’
Uncles
Jonathan Meades
‘Uncle Donald the boffin, Uncle Cecil the pharmacist, Uncle Edgar the optician and Uncle Edgar the boho restaurateur’
I Am Here
Brian Hall
‘We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as “it”’
He’s One, Too
Allan Gurganus
‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’
The Last Jews in Warsaw
Abraham Brumberg
‘I paid only one visit to the Jewish cemetery before the war, sometime in the spring of 1939. I was twelve years old.’
