If there was one kind of hat Terry despised above all others, it was the baseball cap. There was nothing wrong with children wearing it, of course, but whenever he saw it on the head of an adult it se...
Από το κέντρο του κάθε τραπεζιού, μετακινήθηκε ένα μικρό κυκλικό κομμάτι, σαν καταπακτή, από χέρια που ήταν στην αρχή ορατά• και μέσα από κάθε άνοιγμα που δημιουργήθηκε, εμφανίστηκε ένα αντρικό κεφάλι...
Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.
Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems to have nothing to do with the main narrative but is in fact its cornerst...
And so they sit at home, getting fat on the proceedings and here we all are. Our businesses are failing, our jobs disappearing, our countryside choking, our hospitals crumbling, our homes being reposs...
Το κόλπο είναι να κάνεις πάντα σκανδαλώδη πράγματα. Δεν υπάρχει λόγος να περνάς μια σκανδαλώδη νομοθεσία και μετά να δίνεις στους άλλους το χρόνο να προετοιμαστούν σχετικά. Πρέπει να παρεμβαίνεις αμέσ...
You're right, Margaret, absolutely right. Things have changed a lot, even since I've been here. It's a different place now. Better in some ways, worse in others.Better! she echoed, scornfully.
Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffe...
He was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a len...
But deep down he couldn’t tell whether Nigel was joking or not. It was to become an increasingly familiar feeling over the next few years.
Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.
Well, I thought you might want to listen to this. I mean, I thought you might be . . . ready for it.I don't know if you remember, but just before . . . just before Malcolm died, he took me to see a co...
Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the var...
Ему вдруг пришло в голову, что он движется по жизни как во сне и когда-нибудь (лет этак через тридцать) он проснется лишь затем, чтобы увидеть: его время на этой земле подошло к концу, а он не успел у...
[...] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]
You didn't take part, Benjamin? Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat.My brother doesn't play games, said Paul. He's an aesthete. He sat by the window all afternoon with a fun...
Where are the laughs in massacre, famine and climate change, exactly? What’s so funny about the Middle East, North Korea and Afghanistan? Who’s going to chuckle when they pick up the London Review of...
These pieces, he already realised, were merely stepping stones at the start of a journey towards something - some grand artefact, either musical, or literary, or filmic, or perhaps a combination of al...
There’s a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.
Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on par...