‘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.
In the early weeks after Dave died, I was shocked when I’d see friends who did not ask how I was doing.
It was never my intention to take my son kerb-crawling to pick up a prostitute.
Patti Harney stops her unmarked sedan two blocks shy of her destination, the narrow streets packed with patrol cars, the light bars on top of the units shooting a chaos of color into the night.