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Trying to Understand
Philip Hensher
‘I liked his humourless intelligence, so redundant and so excessive in an MP.’
I Am Here
Brian Hall
‘We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as “it”’
He’s One, Too
Allan Gurganus
‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’
Apples
David Guterson
‘He remembered the new, fresh, orchard country of his youth and the rows of apple trees his father had planted on the east bank of the Columbia River.’
Full Disclosure
Zoë Heller
‘The speech he gave was bellicose. It was time, he told the people in the conference room, for them to pull their socks up.’
TV is Good for You
Dan Jacobson
‘Television is constantly accused of encouraging apathy, sloth, passivity, illiteracy, mindlessness and docility among those who are addicted to watching it.’
A Mystery
Charles Jones
‘Charles Jones took beautiful photographs of vegetables, fruit and flowers.’
