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Longshore Drift
Julia Armfield
‘She has never been very keen on the thought of herself as other people see her.’
Scream Queen
Julia Armfield
‘She is well-behaved, as icons go, she toes the party line.’
Short fiction by the author of Our Wives Under the Sea.
Slobber and Drool
Jess Arndt
‘My face, not the glass, was blurry. I had no idea what I really looked like besides lumpy, fuzzy, profuse.’
Slip of a Fish
Amy Arnold
‘Charlie’s swimming. Six strokes then she turns to breathe, six more and all the way to the end of the length. She’s a swimmer, Charlie. She’s a bit of a fish, a slip of a fish.’
Shirley from a Small Place
Alexia Arthurs
‘The highs and lows of fame, have been far better and far worse than both mother and daughter could have hoped for. Shirley is only twenty-seven.’
Reconstruction | New Voices
Lana Asfour
‘There’s nothing like watching the summer sunset with a glass of jellab.’
The Secular World
Nadeem Aslam
‘There is no lack of talent in this country. All we lack is decent leaders.’ Pakistan’s secular world runs against fundamentalism in Nadeem Aslam’s latest novel, The Golden Legend.
Leila in the Wilderness
Nadeem Aslam
‘It was almost involuntary: it felt like falling, or like rising in a dream.’
Don’t Look at Me Like That
Diana Athill
‘When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn’t far from true.’
A Certain King
Jennifer Atkins
‘I didn’t think she was happy; I thought she was in love, but I didn’t know what that told me, if it told me anything.’
Fiction by Jennifer Atkins.
The Martians Claim Canada
Margaret Atwood
‘Mushrooms have long memories. Some of them are thousands of years old. However, they are not always very talkative.’