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Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘Generalisations about the national psyche – supposing there is one – must always be treated with suspicion.’
Ian Jack on the eve of the 7/7 bombings.
Wish You Were Here
Simon Gray
‘From contemptuous wit to unfathomable pain, the centre always held, Alan was always there.’
Airds Moss
Kathleen Jamie
‘It could almost have been Neolithic, an ancient and mysterious earthworks.’
Lister’s Mill
Liz Jobey
‘The city has defied many plans for its regeneration and its centre is a dispiriting mess’
Buckets of Blood
Tessa Hadley
‘I’m miscarrying a pregnancy, she said, when the spasm seemed to have passed.—It’s a fine mess.’
Martin and Me
Thomas Healy
‘The Dobermann Club was run by a strong-voiced ex-army man who brooked no nonsense.’
Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘The last issue of Granta celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and retraced a little of its pre-1979 history as a magazine for and by the students of Cambridge University.’