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Footplacers, London Transport, Owls, Wincer-Boise
Russell Hoban
‘All those footsteps have been gathered up into the footplacer, all those goings are gone.’
The House by the Gallows
Intizar Hussain
‘Along with religion, an unthinking nationalism had become the other god of Pakistan.’
Doing the Paperwork: Life in the aftermath of a violent death
David Goldblatt
‘If the pressure of their life didn’t kill her it made the fight too hard.’
India! The Golden Jubilee: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’
Growing up with the King of Pop
Marlon James
‘The thrill of Thriller was being part of something global and local at once.’
If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder
Aleksandar Hemon
‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’
Klever Kaff
Ian Jack
‘She was an extraordinary person, and an ordinary one.’
Ian Jack on the life of Kathleen Ferrier, the English contralto singer.
Foreign Bodies
Peregrine Hodson
‘We'd reached the end of the journey: a day and a night and then home. Perhaps that was our first mistake. We forgot where we were.’
