Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead, and pulled the trigger.
Dubai is many things – interesting, enthralling, unusual – but it’s not a genuine glimpse of the Arab world.
Amber cracked an eyelid and sunlight hit her optic nerve like a tetanus shot.
The cornerstone of my approach to dog training is that dog training is not about dogs: it’s about people.
‘Excuse me, Dr Paterson?’ Willow lifted her head and chuckled when she saw the first-year student hovering by her table. ‘Not Doctor.’
In 2004, I took a leave from my job to write a book about competing in America’s toughest fantasy-baseball expert competition.
Chapter 1: Rebecca *Please note* that this extract contains adult themes and is suitable for readers aged 16+.
BC — BEFORE CANCER Before any of this happened, I was just a very normal teenager.
Tommy Guptill had once owned a dairy farm, which he inherited from his father, and which was about two miles from the town of Amgash, Illinois.
Dock’s shoes on the rocks up the hill and his heavy breathing had shut out all sound so that it seemed a long while she had heard nothing, and Amos lay too still, not clawing at the blanket as when...
A teaching hospital in London: September 1970 Big trouble awaited me on my first day on the job, but I wasn’t a bit surprised.
I don’t know exactly when I first felt the calling to be a bookseller.
The day the police visited my primary school was the day that changed my life forever.
