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  • Aug 18 2008:

    An exclusive taste of the renowned author and screenwriter's novel, due in English translation next year

  • Rooster cockerel 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

  • Playwright and author Simon Gray Aug 11 2008:

    Extract from The Last Cigarette, the memoirs of Simon Gray who died last week

  • Aug 9 2008:

    It's a green hollow where a spring gushes
    and giddily snags on cane its silver ...

  • Lemn Sissay Video (1min 56sec): Aug 6 2008: Performance poet Lemn Sissay performs his poem Godsell around London's South Bank
  • Aug 2 2008:

    It does not keep you safe; it does not |
    give you the words you need, it does not ...

  • 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

  • Aug 2 2008:

    A shorty story by Alice Sebold: Gaseous clouds seemed to linger outside the window, enveloping everything Priscilla saw

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jul 12 2008:

    52 A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay

  • Jul 12 2008:

    When the Old Man suddenly rubbed me awake
    I was already aroused, yawning and reaching upwards,
    Skinny as a rib, just a slip of a something

  • 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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