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Zeppelin
Herta Müller
‘This Zeppelin may not float high and silver in the sky, but it does set your mind adrift.’
This is for You
Emmanuel Carrère
‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
The Agony of Intimacy
Jeanette Winterson
‘We all knew that about the gods – that they were total sex.’
Eight Pieces for the Left Hand
J. Robert Lennon
‘Autumn, once the most popular season in this town of tall trees, is now regarded with dread, thanks to the bitter athletic rivalry between our two local high schools.’
You Go When You Can No Longer Stay
Jackie Kay
‘It is not so much that we are splitting up that is really worrying me, it is the fact that she keeps quoting Martin Amis.’
The Surgery of Last Resort
Daniel Smith
’Early one morning in the fall of 1999, Steven R., a forty-seven-year-old man with fair skin and grey hair, was in the front yard of his home in suburban Nebraska, picking up leaves‘.
White Men’s Boats
Giles Foden
‘Deo Gratias stood on the deck of the Liemba with his prisoners at his feet. I leaned on the rail, studiously casual.’
Put Not Thy Trust In Chariots
Jonathan Tel
'David had nothing against Arabs personally.This despite the fact he was religious (he wore a blue-and-white kippa which had been knitted by his wife, Devorah, as an engagement present.'
After Hours
A. M. Homes
‘They have created stage sets, backdrops, candy-coloured scenarios, Kodacolor bright landscapes onto which you can project your fantasies.’
Wish
Catherine Chung
‘I don’t know exactly what I wanted from you then, except that I wanted it badly.’
