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A Soap Opera From Hell
Clive Sinclair
‘It comes as no surprise when an ophthalmist informs him that the tears he does produce–the consequence of various allergies–are deficient, poor-quality facsimiles of the real thing.’
The Seventh Man
Haruki Murakami
‘I looked up at the sky. A few grey cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless.’
The Assassin
Henk van Woerden
‘He stabbed the man in front of him yet again, three more times, before he was overpowered by the bystanders.’
Henk van Woerden on the assassination of the South African Prime Minister in 1966.
Goodbye, Mother
Hanif Kureishi
‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.
Fit Mother
Peter Ho Davies
‘The court had given me six months to prove I was a responsible adult and a fit mother’.
Our Nicky’s Heart
Graham Swift
‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
Caterpillars
James Lasdun
‘But he had engulfed her somehow; taken up residence in her imagination like some large, dense, intractable problem that had been given to her to solve.’
