

“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
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“What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?”
― Austenland
― Austenland

“In Waverley the reader is introduced to one of the great ideas of the modern novel: that reading has the power to mediate and deflect experience. Six”
― Waverley
― Waverley

“The sky was a blanket of grey, tarmac-coloured clouds with no hint of the blue beyond them.”
― Knife Edge
― Knife Edge

“With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly.
‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between them making Steve’s nose twitch involuntarily.”
― Our Blue Orange
‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between them making Steve’s nose twitch involuntarily.”
― Our Blue Orange
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