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Southern Birds
Desmond Hogan
‘She was like a nun who wanted her body for herself but being generous gave it freely.’
Shoes
Anjali Joseph
‘Like scraps of leather, oddly shaped, things from life, people and sayings and objects, found themselves spliced together.’
The Grandson of Jesus Christ
Apricot Irving
‘His heart is a tired engine with too many loose screws and faulty wires, not weightless like the tissue-thin kites he used to fly with his grandfather as the string danced between his fingers.’
We Are the Kings
Michel Houellebecq
‘Smoking cigarettes has become the only element of real freedom in my day-to-day existence.’
The Summer After the War
Kazuo Ishiguro
‘As it was, my grandfather began helping me to paint without my having to ask him.’
She Murdered Mortal He
Sarah Hall
‘Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.’
My Mother’s Death Party
Ben Janse
‘When I was eleven I fell out of a tree. This is why I can see into the future.’
Overreachers
Richard Ford
‘Madeleine Granville was standing at the hotel window of the Queen Elizabeth II, trying to decide which tiny car far below on Mansfield Street was her yellow Saab’.
A House in the Country
Romesh Gunesekera
‘The nights had always been noisy: frogs, drums, bottles, dogs barking at the moon.’
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
‘Ther leader he wer a big black and red spottit dog he come forit a littl like he ben going to make a speach or some thing’.
The Universal Fears
John Hawkes
‘He was most seriously injured, as it turned out, not in the groin or flanks or belly, but in the head.’
