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Goal 666

Stacey Richter

‘I began to feel almost ill with a kind of unpleasant pleasure, like being tickled.’

Submersion

Ross Raisin

‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’

After the War, Before the War

David Peace

‘At last, at last. His first steps, on Chinese soil.’

The Lawyer’s Story

Paul Theroux

‘Bow tie, blue shirt, tight suit, cowboy boots—he was overdressed for Singapore.’

The Golden Bough

Salman Rushdie

‘The same face. At every interview the same bland features. It could not be – but it was.’

Cohiba

Lucía Puenzo

‘She would leave everything behind not to lose him.’

Phantom Pain

Lydia Peelle

‘Something’s out there. Something has shown up in the woods of Highland City.’

The Law of White Spaces

Giorgio Pressburger

‘It was beginning to seem as if his brother’s fate depended on him, on his ability, or lack of it, to learn the prayer for the dead.’

Early One Morning

Helen Simpson

‘He's the only person in the world who listens to me and does what I tell him (thought Zoe).’

Hands Across the Water

Rachel Seiffert

‘Dark red hair. Wee skirt and trainers, bare arms. All those freckles.’

Moscow Dynamo

Victor Pelevin

‘That's why they're able to live like normal human beings, he thought, because they never forget about their duty. They don't spend all their time getting pissed like folks here.’

Victory Mills

Mona Simpson

‘I have driven a car on acid, carried my mother drunk upstairs and slept with numerous men and one woman to no consequence.’

The Butcher of Bermondsey

Graham Swift

‘Then he led me out into the noise and the glare and the stink.’

Arrivals

Sunjeev Sahota

‘But he couldn’t lose the sense that this was a turning point in his life, that she’d been delivered to him for a reason.’