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Autumn 2001
‘I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers’ Pimp.’ Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British Spy in Arabia.
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Brief Encounters
Richard Murphy
‘The year was 1944. The Germans had started to rain their first flying bombs on England’.
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Do I Owe You Something?
Michael Mewshaw
‘In the fall of 1971, Rome enjoyed an unbroken skein of bright crisp mornings and balmy afternoons that stretched on into November’.
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At The Villa Moro
Paul Theroux
‘This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it’.
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The War of The Words
Alexander Stille
‘The world in which he grew up, a pastoral nomadic life that developed over centuries in isolation, is disappearing’.
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An Amateur Spy In Arabia
Norman Lewis
‘In the 1930s I wanted to travel and I wanted to write. In 1935, I published my first book—about a journey to Spain’.
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The Separate World of Seaports
James Hamilton-Paterson & Alex Majoli
‘I am aged eight or nine, on a family outing by Thames water bus in London’.
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Little Sister
Anne Enright
‘The year I'm talking about, the year my sister left (or whatever you choose to call it), I was twenty-one and she was seventeen’.
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In Between Talking about The Elephant
Jackie Kay
‘I discover some rough skin on her elbow. I run my tongue along it’.
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Everything Is Different in Your House
Adam Mars-Jones
‘At the end of the year, an ambulance brought Suseela home from hospital to die’.
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Johnny
John McGahern
The Ruttledges saw Johnny resting in the shade of the alder tree at the gate,...
