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Captain Scott’s Biscuit
Thomas Keneally
‘So the Ross Sea Novotel and McMurdo Sheraton could be built within this century. Children will gambol on the ice shelf where Scott exhaled his last, pained breath.’
The Handbag Studio
Thomas Keneally
‘In Los Angeles in late October of 1980, I was feeling the strange, malign electricity the Santa Ana winds bring to the city.’
The Transition
Luke Kennard
In the not-so-distant future, middle-class underachievers are faced with a difficult choice: prison or motivational business classes.
That Whole London Thing
A.L. Kennedy
‘But London has always been impossible and yet possible and has always called me.’
Labyrinths
A.L. Kennedy
‘I was tempted to let the pages blow overboard and start again...But they have very stern laws about littering at sea.’
Summer with my Grandmother
A.L. Kennedy
‘And this was my grandmother, this man-destroying tyrant, this magnificent perfectionist with untireable arms and unfathomable ways of seeing.’
Insomnia
A.L. Kennedy
‘After dinner and schoolwork and dog-walking and the rest, even if I’d put the light out and laid myself down for definite rest, little ideas and scraps and nonsenses would tickle in and start to shake me. They would make the nights too bright to resist.’
