Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.