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Finished With Engines
Ian Jack
‘My father wrote a kind of autobiography in the years before he died.’
The Dolphin of Amble
Peregrine Hodson
‘Once again the dolphin presented his body to my hand, slid by my fingers and turned over with a lazy splash.’
The Greenland Pump
Matthew Hart
‘In its currents the ocean is printing news about our future, and we must keep up on the latest bulletins.’
The Earth from the Air
Kitty Hauser
‘It takes another kind of eye, another viewpoint to reveal to us the truth about the world.’
Easter Island Noodles Almondine
Thom Jones
‘I grew up in a factory town, Aurora, Illinois, some forty miles west of Chicago.’
In a Land of Silence
Janine di Giovanni
‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’
Actively Portly
Ian Hamilton
‘When Ian Rush was asked to explain his failure to score goals for Juventus he replied that being in Italy was like being in a foreign country.’
In Search of the Third Way
Roy Hattersley
‘The evidence suggests that the Third Way is a reactive rather than a creative force, a response rather than an original idea.’
The Paris Intifada
Andrew Hussey
‘In the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire wrote of Paris being haunted by its past, by ‘ghosts in daylight.’
A Plausible Portrait
Ted Hodgkinson
‘My friends say I am secretive and devious,’ he wrote in the introduction to Picasso and Dora. ‘They’re right.’
