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Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat

Robert Coover

‘Projections run riot, mirrors tip and weave, there’s a blur of images like film jumping out of its sprockets.’

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Extracts From The Journal Of Flying Officer J

William Boyd

‘The squadron left today for the city. The mess cold and sad, Verschoyle, with uncharacteristic generosity, said I could keep the monoplane.’

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Lucy the Liar

Patrick deWitt

‘Tell me it’s a lie, now. Will you say that it is?’

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On Monday Last Week

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘Kamara had always resented the glamour of half-castes.’

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Hare in Love

Sam Coll

A wry, fanciful fable about how love can transform both nature and fate.

Procreate, Generate

Anthony Doerr

‘Nothingness is the rule. Life is the exception.’

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The Colonel’s Son

Roberto Bolaño

‘Then Julie extracts her victim’s heart and eats it.’

The Love Machine

Julia Elliott

‘Beatrice was my first love. The dark contours of her delicate skeleton, the glowing flesh made translucent by my X-ray gaze, drove me crazy.’

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Mr Bones

Paul Auster

‘Mr Bones knew that Willy wasn't long for this world’.

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The Gentlest Village

Jesse Ball

‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’

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Shaft

Anne Enright

‘As soon as I walked in, I knew he wanted to touch it.’

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Sparks

Carol Bensimon

‘Your anywhere is a river you watch as you smoke.’

Persist

Zaina Arafat

‘I grew obsessed with the place, thinking that getting to see it, to experience it, would make the pain of that fall go away.’

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The Ivory Acrobat

Don DeLillo

‘She lay in a kind of timeless drift, a mindwork spiral, carried on half-formed thoughts. She passed into a false sleep and then was listening again. She opened her eyes.’