Ben Janse

‘When I was eleven I fell out of a tree. This is why I can see into the future.’

Issue 72

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’.

Issue 33

Romesh Gunesekera

‘The nights had always been noisy: frogs, drums, bottles, dogs barking at the moon.’

Issue 3

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’.

Anjum Hasan

Issue 1

John Hawkes

‘He was most seriously injured, as it turned out, not in the groin or flanks or belly, but in the head.’

Issue 19

Ellen Gilchrist

‘He drove off in her car. He was wearing a white visor, a white shirt with long sleeves. I don't believe the world I lived to see.’

Mohsin Hamid

‘The words are just dribbling out of my mouth. I can’t stop them. They’re like tears.’

Esther Freud

‘When the Lindens arrived in Los Angeles it was raining. Not drizzling, or even pouring, but streaming down outside the glass doors of the arrivals lounge in thick, grey sideways slices.’

Issue 7

Alan Judd

‘She responded to him with a mixture of haughty refusal and a suggestive acknowledgement, a grudging yielding which was what the play demanded.’

Issue 119

Tania James

‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’

Tomás González

‘He had just finished unpacking his rucksack, new only ten days ago and now a sodden, salty, decomposing rag, when they called him.’

Issue 74

Penelope Fitzgerald

‘The two cultures are complementary but in the way that death is to life.’

Issue 32

Allan Gurganus

‘I sold funeral insurance to North Carolina black people.’