Tag: Fiction
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Day 1: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Cocktails and Colouring
A gin-tasting and colouring-in event with Eilidh Muldoon and Nikki Welch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Animals Eat Each Other
“I’m pretty sure the meaning of life is about sex. Otherwise, why do we suffer so much for it? Why do guys get jobs they hate? Why do men marry women they don’t like? Why do girls do the stupid shit they do? Why do they all seem so fucking unhappy?”
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
“And who decided which people wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
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Turtles All The Way Down
“I mean, anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
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The Fault In Our Stars
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
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The Golden Orphans
A novella packed with the detail, characterisation and flair of a doorstop-sized literary thriller.
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No Good Brother
“The end of this story is pretty well known, since people wound up getting killed and the trials were in the news…”
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