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Loved Ones: Introduction
Ian Jack
One of the world's unfair divisions is that between the writer and the written-about, and this is nowhere more true than in the literary form called the memoir.
On the Road Again: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Switzerland absolutely fulfils our idea of the picturesque’
Bye-Bye Natalia
Michel Faber
‘Natalia picks at the frayed black lace of her dress while the photograph of her American penpal loads into the computer.’
The End of Travel
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’
Homage to Mount Desert Island
Mark Haworth-Booth
‘A cow was on the wrong side of the fence on Crooked Road on May 26.’
Introduction: God’s Own Countries
Ian Jack
‘The idea of God as creator and custodian died, and many words in the old vocabulary were robbed of their potency.’
Nell Freudenberger | God and Me
Nell Freudenberger
‘When I was seven, I sat down to draw God. God wore a pirate shirt, purple harem pants and a red fez.’
The War of the Ears
Moses Isegawa
‘It was a victory to arrive home. Ma Beeda always celebrated with a strong cup of tea.’
Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black
Nadine Gordimer
‘Once there were blacks wanting to be white. Now there are whites wanting to be black.’
