from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
How many harmless young black men have been injured or killed in modern cities in white countries this year, for the crime of exciting someone else’s racism? Too many, and it...
30 December 2017
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
She must move. Or she must stay put. She must attack or she must escape. It is vitally important that she does something, even if it is nothing. To be surprised...
30 December 2017
from The one we feed by Kameron Hurley
Remember when my head was full of old proverbs and not a lick of fact? Yeah, well, I think it’s turned around now as I get older. Fewer facts. More proverbs....
29 December 2017
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
a book is not finished until it is read. Harkaway, Nick, Gnomon (William Heinemann, 2017)
18 December 2017
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
It was the spring before the vote on our relationship with the European Union, and so I started from what I saw all around me. I imagined that we might lose...
18 December 2017
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
I worked as only someone who lives without dependents or lovers can. Harkaway, Nick, Gnomon (William Heinemann, 2017)
18 December 2017
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
The right to avoid self-incrimination, the right to die, the right to live, the right to freedom from slavery, freedom of conscience and religion, of opinion, and the right not to...
18 December 2017
from “Saving the World One Dog at a Time” by Kameron Hurley
This is how you save the world, one life, one act, at a time. Kameron Hurley. (2017). Saving the World One Dog at a Time
8 December 2017
from A skinful of shadows by Frances Hardinge
Children are little priests of their parents, watching their every gesture and expression for signs of their divine will.
20 November 2017
from H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.
2 September 2017
from H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
I think of all the complicated histories that landscapes have, and how easy it is to wipe them away, put easier, safer histories in their place.
2 September 2017