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After Helena
Andrés Neuman
‘What can damage us more? The blunt honesty of hatred, or the thwarted objective of reconciliation?’
John Saturnall’s Feast
Lawrence Norfolk
‘After a turn they came to a high arched entrance from which cooking smells drifted.’
The Little Plate of Childhood
Todd McEwen
‘I truly hate food, I said to Isidor. I just can’t take it any more. F*** food!’
The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night
Michael Mendis
‘I say his fingers are dying because he is old. Because he is and alone. On that sloping armchair. But more because there is no turning back for him.’
A Double-Income Family
Deepti Kapoor
When Mrs Mehra leaves Delhi she retires in one of ‘the vast new satellite townships on the eastern fringes of the metropolis’.
Kabir Street
R. K. Narayan
‘Nagaraj had begun to have doubts about his standing in his ancestral home’
Jane Somers’s Diaries
Doris Lessing
‘I had never thought that before, never felt life in that way, as I did then; washing Maudie Fowler, a fierce angry old woman.’
Neighbours
Adam Mars-Jones
‘Terry and I entertained hundreds of couples over the years, and I don't think we were unusual.‘
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Toby Litt
‘I began to think, for no particular reason, about what the exact series of events would be were I to die at that moment – before, even, my coffee went cold.’
