Trio

People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People are opaque, mysterious, even those dearest to us are closed books. If you want to know what people are like, if you want to know what's going on in their heads behind those masks we all wear then read a novel.

Cornell off to realise another impossible dream, righting more geopolitical wrongs. In a way, she thought, you had to admire someone like that. They burned brighter than ordinary mortals.

It was born of self-confidence, though, this attitude – of success, not chippiness, that debilitating English disease. He

What happened to your lip, by the way?’ ‘I was punched in the face by a French philosopher.

he considered further, the very ability to fantasise was a fundamental feature

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