Original writing
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Editors' picks
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Chris Ware | William Boyd | Alice Sebold | Julian Barnes | Tessa Hadley -
Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay write a new addition to the tale each week
Most recent
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Aug 18 2008:
An exclusive taste of the renowned author and screenwriter's novel, due in English translation next year
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Aug 11 2008:
He's unknown over here, but Jia Pingwa is a runaway bestseller in China. Here we present an exclusive extract from his latest novel, newly translated by Nicky Harman
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Aug 11 2008:
Extract from The Last Cigarette, the memoirs of Simon Gray who died last week
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Aug 9 2008:
It's a green hollow where a spring gushes
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Aug 6 2008:
Performance poet Lemn Sissay performs his poem Godsell around London's South Bank
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Aug 2 2008:
It does not keep you safe; it does not |
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Aug 2 2008:
A short story by Tessa Hadley: Their parents had fantastic parties, they were famous for it. The bath in the downstairs bathroom would be filled with ice, and then with bottles of Veuve du Vernay
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Aug 2 2008:
A shorty story by Alice Sebold: Gaseous clouds seemed to linger outside the window, enveloping everything Priscilla saw
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Aug 2 2008:
A short story by Julian Barnes: It was the week Hillary Clinton finally conceded. The table was a clutter of bottles and glasses
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Aug 1 2008:
A short story from William Boyd: I stole a BOAC Speedbird lapel badge from my friend Mark Pertwee. I was eight years old and it was the first act of conscious larceny that I can remember
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Jul 19 2008:
That's my last duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf's hands
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Jul 15 2008:
As they searched the thick shrubbery to the left of the front drive, Nutt remarked that they would find a dead child if the living one was not found
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Jul 12 2008:
52 A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay
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Jul 12 2008:
When the Old Man suddenly rubbed me awake
I was already aroused, yawning and reaching upwards,
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Jul 10 2008:
Extract: The story begins with Salman Rushdie's Shandy-esque narrator, Saleem Sinai, revealing the accident of his birth
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