He walked past a freshly dug grave, then another.
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Carl Linnaeus’s floral clock
It was the first day of the summer holiday when the secrets of the new garden were finally revealed. Liv was lying in bed.
The Way the Hen Kicks
Species
My most successful idea, hailed by my producers as genius …
The Dictionary of Big Words
He unlocks the door and it opens with a screech. He enters his house as he would enter a church.
One: Noah
Noah wishes he could pick Lucy up, carry her away from the sink and the dishes into the other room and tie her to the armchair
Dina
Note: The following is an extract from a short story describing a fictional meeting between the narrator and Dina Vierny, the muse of the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. Vierny died, aged 89, in 2009. It was the young man working at the front desk who told me she was coming. When I first came to the […]
Novel Extract
This is an extract from a novel about an elderly Alzheimer’s sufferer – Maud – who is convinced that her friend Elizabeth has gone missing
The Terrible Testimony of Cordelia Scar
‘One letter short of liar, you know,’ was all my father said about that.
No Punishment Without Law
When Kendrick left the car it was just barely raining, more a wetness felt in the air than rain.
In the Beginning Was the Word
‘It’s me, Daniel … Daniel Murphy. Your Daniel. Don’t you remember?’ But still the old man’s eyes didn’t even blink.