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A Dynasty of Album Cover Art
Lemi Ghariokwu
‘The music is as powerful as it gets and beneath his knife-edge, cutting sarcasm, Fela’s voice rages.’
Testimonial
Martha Gellhorn
‘Governments think big; they think geopolitically. Human rights are irrelevant to geopolitics. This may kill us all in the end.’
Summers in Norfolk
Roger Garfitt
‘I watch her arms as she moves about the room, almost in love with their colour.’
The Lost City
Isabel Hilton
‘There is nobody to blame but the Communist Party. They had absolute control during the fifty years it took to destroy Beijing, and they had the chance to develop a modern, civilized city.’
Lino
Colin Grant
‘It was a big news day. We were going to look for a piece of lino for the back room.’
The Perfect Code
Terrence Holt
‘At the centre of all this lies the patient, the only one in the room who isn’t shouting.’
The Beauty of the Package
Pico Iyer
‘You can throw yourself into any fantasy, she (and her country) might have been saying, so long as you don’t mistake it for real life.’
The Savage Notebook
Richard Holmes
‘Richard Savage remains a shadowy figure until the moment of his arrest for murder, in a back alley near Charing Cross, in November 1727.’
First Catch Your Puffin
Sean French
‘A man is rescued after years stranded on a desert island with two companions, one of whom died.’
Orange People
Tim Guest
‘Never in history had so much orange gathered together to say 'Beloved' so often.’
