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Eve is tired, confused. What has just happened, she wonders? She picks up the faded playing cards, shuffles absently, trying to remember the rules. I spread the playing cards face ...
Even among the gaudy Christmas lights, strung up along the street like Fascists on lamp-posts, he sees it. It’s a flash of blue in the corner of his eye, glancing ...
He did not stop, as was his custom, to read the notices pasted on the wall; not even one signed by the rabbinical council which denoted a matter of extreme ...
The following is an extract from Naomi Wood’s novel The Godless Boys, to be published by Picador in 2011. In England, in 1950, there was a war between the Church and ...
1. Sheila is getting ready for choir. Her lift is due any minute. She is upstairs in the bedroom, ironing her dress. The iron is too hot and she turns ...
Introduction by Martin Scorsese, whose film adaptation of the book is currently in production. How do you tell the story of Christian faith? The difficulty, the crisis, of believing? How do ...