Colin Grant

‘No matter how I attempted to interpret the email, it could only be read in one way: I was out of the Bunny Wailer club. Jah Bunny had put a curse on me.’

Eliza Griswold

‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’

Romesh Gunesekera

‘It is to Shakespeare’s pages I return whenever I feel I am sinking. There I can be sure to find a lifeline.’

Xiaolu Guo

‘In those spring nights, I sat by barbecue stalls in the streets of Beijing, reading this novel under dim streetlights while eating lamb skewers.’

Xiaolu Guo

‘I had lost my native country, now I was going to lose a continent.’

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Matilda Gustavsson

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Claire Hajaj

‘The morning Helin walked out to die, she dressed carelessly in a loose T-shirt and jeans.’

Minal Hajratwala

‘We may not belong to Shakespeare, nor he to us, ever.’

Darrell Hartman

From The Revenant through Jurassic Park and Godzilla, Darrell Hartman traces the evolving meaning of megafauna in popular culture.

Dave Haysom

Dave Haysom on why Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling is the best book of 1766.

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Peregrine Hodson

‘We have to find a way to balance life with memory.’

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A.M. Homes

‘He was rare and singular.’

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Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

Leslie Jamison

‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’