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Return to Akenfield
Craig Taylor
‘Akenfield did not bow to sentimental ideas of the countryside as idyll’
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The Seventh Event
Richard Powers
‘Think of mitosis as trillions of slightly near-sighted, plagiarizing students’
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Waiting for Salmon
Barry Lopez
‘The world, we too often forget, has no investment or interest in the triumph of Homo sapiens’
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Airds Moss
Kathleen Jamie
‘It could almost have been Neolithic, an ancient and mysterious earthworks.’
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Fantastic Mr Fox
Tim Adams
‘He told the police officer that he was a vegan and the next morning a little slit in the prison door opened, with his breakfast: a metal tray on which there were three frozen potatoes.’ Tim Adams on the fox hunting ban in Granta 90: Country Life.
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When Grandmama Was Young
Matthew Reisz
‘They touched on some of the crucial questions about sex we are still struggling with.’
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The Death of a Chair
Doris Lessing
‘To attack the chair I equipped myself with a saw, sharp scissors and a claw hammer.’
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Essays & Memoir|Granta 90
Constitutional
Helen Simpson
‘The thing about a circular walk is that you end up where you started.’
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The End of the Provinces
Jeremy Seabrook
‘If provincial life still exists, it does so only residually and is doomed to eventual extinction.’
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Pounding a Nail
Studs Terkel
‘It wasn't his first radio interview—he'd done a few in New York the previous year—but certainly among his earliest.’