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Ten Money Notes
Kevin Jackson
‘Despite money's protean nature, however, a lot of people persist in believing that it should stay much the same and are dismayed when it doesn't.’
Scotland’s Last Great Artefact
Stephen Gill
'In December 1964, the Cunard Line placed its order for the ship that turned out to be the last great transatlantic liner'.
A Hand Made Art
Per Gedin
‘This new kind of ‘planned’ best-seller invariably influences every other form of book production, most notably that of the book selling.’
Cuba Revisited
Martha Gellhorn
‘I drove around Havana, sightseeing, half-curious, and wholly sick of the miserable weather.’
Brazil
Sue Halpern
‘Water curls through the Fortaleza slum: sewer water. It drains between shacks made of sticks and mud, and is pretty when it catches the sun’.
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.’
Bone Litter
Marian Botsford Fraser
‘There is a tiny skull on a pillow of bright green moss, and arm and leg bones neatly crossed, as if they had just been gently placed there in mourning.’
Are We Related?
Liz Jobey
‘Most family relationships are difficult, and sometimes they can become the most difficult human relationships of all.’
The Terminal Check
Pico Iyer
‘The world is all mixed up these days, and America can no longer claim immunity.’
