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They took me to pubs without names over the door, to early morning markets where you could pay butchers to chop up your...

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“Reaching the Victorian building with its mock-turrets, its Georgian facades, its blinded windows, he climbed twe...

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Every day for many years he passed by the window, and no matter how he tried he could never keep from looking therein. ...

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Out the corner of my eye I watched Maria watch herself: in every shiny surface, every mirror, every pane of glass that ...

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The walls are closing in. No word from my agent; editors their inscrutable selves; all frustration a...

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One day last summer someone texted to say they’d just seen my novel in a bookshop. Leaving work early I tubed it...

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As part of an obsession with digitising aspects of my life I’ve been scanning old photos. There’s something...

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It seemed like writer Mark Piggott had found paradise: a luxury resort near Broome on Australia’s northern coast....

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Perhaps the Holloway Hemingway tag was a bit tongue in cheek. First thing in the morning you’re far more likely t...

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I used to think that I could change the planet just by traversing its exotic limits. I was the Holloway Hemingway, a r...

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Pixelation: Enter If You Can (1998-9)

Introduction

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The first time I looked in Marsha’s eyes she had me pinned to the floor of the Manor House with one hand, a broke...

“One of the most striking things about the Moonie-eyed, cultish imbeciles gluing themselves to our nation’s arterial highways is their age. Alongside the pronoun-sensitive, Corbynist students found at all BL...

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Stage-tiptoe in number 11 Brogues 67-year-old Donald Maguire stepped over the browning bundle of spice-scented rags fro...

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After months spent scouring alleys and garbage dumps all across town Ms Genevieve Lucroix found Honey Pie under a pier...

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The hour-hand dragged by gravity down to six: Time. No gentlemen, no "please", even time running low. As he pushed at ...

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Their fingers – his dirty white, hers clean brown – unwrapped each from the others clutches like withered ...

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Why mom let daddy drive us to the wood that day I never knew. She kinda distracted, hurting from bone-cancer and a tra...

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A plane drifted slowly across the window above the roofs of Camden Town. I knew something terrible was going to happen...

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The boy had found a place to sleep where he felt safe and dry, close to the hospital and far from hardcore Holloway Ro...