Issue 72

Teun Voeten

‘Sierra Leone is a small country on the coast of West Africa of roughly the same size and population as Scotland: 28,000 square miles, about five million people’.

Issue 70

Tim Winton

‘Through the open window I smelt dead lupin and for a long time forgot my age.’

Issue 67

Joy Williams

‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’

Edmund White

‘The worst thing about knowing he was positive was that now he was under an obligation to tell his partners. Not that he informed the man he picked up in the park or the guy he lured over on the phone chatline.’

Issue 65

Jenny Uglow

Issue 64

Vitali Vitaliev

‘Drinking vodka is just a memory for me now. Vodka was hurting me.’

Issue 64

Frances Welch

‘When I was a child I seemed to live in a fog of inattention which cleared only when I was alone.’

Issue 64

Barry Unsworth

‘Naples had always been high on the list of places I wanted to visit‘.

Peter Walker

‘It would be hard to overstate the importance of genealogy in Maori society.’

Issue 57

Viramma

‘All my children have been buried where they died’

Issue 56

Donovan Wylie

‘Every one of them had similar stories of pain and loss’

Issue 56

Simon Winchester

‘It is the roar, however, that is most magnificent and daunting’

Issue 55

Joy Williams

‘Babies, babies, babies. There’s a plague of babies.’

Issue 54

Kate Wheeler

‘Althea's neck strained. Her black, small eyes shifted swiftly, blinked, then fixed evilly on Ingrid.’