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Dunkirk
Ian McEwan
‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’
Slim
Adam Mars-Jones
‘My African family doesn't have the money for photographs. My African family may never even have seen a photograph.’
Sticky Fingers
Arun Kolatkar
‘Selecting the right kind of a tomato was crucial for the scam to work.’
Soul and Body
Milan Kundera
‘What was screaming in fact was the naive idealism of her love trying to banish all contradictions, banish the duality of the body and soul, banish perhaps even time.’
A Queer Streak Part Two: Possession
Alice Munro
‘He thinks he remembers Violet coming for supper, as she sometimes did, bringing with her a pudding which she set outside in the snow, to keep it cool.’
Fiction by Alice Munro.
Night in the Afternoon
Caroline Lamarche
‘A little entrance hall. A staircase. To the left of the staircase, a door with a window leading into the concierge's room.’
In Sight of the Lake
Alice Munro
‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’
Fiction by Alice Munro.
A Mason’s Hand | New Voices
Ali Akbar Natiq
‘Haji sahib, these kids are beyond me. I can’t teach them any more. Please make some other arrangement.’
Success
Adriana Lisboa
‘They hadn’t tried them yet but the girls both knew, from the adverts, that Hollywood cigarettes were awesome.’
The Men’s Club
Leonard Michaels
‘The night of the meeting I told my wife I’d be home before midnight.’
The Night Shift
Jay McInerney
‘You see yourself as the kind of guy who appreciates a quiet night at home with a good book. A little Mozart on the speakers, a cup of cocoa on the arm of the chair, slippers on the feet.’
