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Winnie and the Innocence of the World
Joost Zwagerman
‘This is how I became Winnie’s clandestine, outcast and utterly powerless guardian angel.’
The Mountain Road
William Wall
‘Funeral homes are always cold. There were pine benches in lines like a church. They had been varnished recently and there was that heady smell. It reminded me of my father’s boat, the wheelhouse brightwork newly touched up. It was the smell of childhood.’
The Beacon & The Bane
Malerie Willens
‘In spite of my pining and missing, neither man seemed fully formed and I felt a little lonely in the presence of both.’
Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
To the Ocean
Deb Olin Unferth
‘At the desk they said they encouraged guests not to walk, but she was determined’
The Landlady
Geling Yan
‘After all, they were landlady and tenant; what right did he have to meddle?’
Open Water
Deb Olin Unferth
She had already imagined it all, so much so that when she finally did see him, she felt unable to speak.
Poor Lucky Kolyvanova
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’
Exotics
Callan Wink
‘He’d come to tell her that he was leaving. It seemed rather impossible now – the telling, not the leaving.’
