Extracts

For a squire of noted charm and alleged cleverness, Reeve of Norwood is displaying neither of those traits today.

Things come from nowhere.

There were no other survivors.

We are absolute podcast tragics.

Every one of us is born with the ability to lead the change we care enough to make.

‘I’m going to die tonight. I’m going to die tonight.’

The baby is starting to grumble.

‘What on earth has Harry got now?’

In the bar room of Jack & Charlie’s 21 Club, toys dangled from the ceiling.

“OVERLORD, THIS IS Sabre. We are three clicks from the target.”

One does not have be a combat soldier, or visit a refugee camp in Syria or the Congo to encounter trauma.

It is a time of tilting days.

Henrietta Yi and her team have been underground for three days.

An old man, his arm around a woman, smiles from a photograph at the top of my computer screen.

The night Charlie Rabbit disappears, Delia thinks of her sister.

Nineteen-ninety, I reflected, was not turning out to be the best of years for me.

The boy gasped for breath, hair in his mouth, before the next wave slammed him back against the bottom. He tumbled, the fizz of bubbles around him.

Ethan Salt tip-toed to the very edge of the tenement rooftop, rolling his special poster into a perfect telescope.