Extract
Berlin | Easter Sunday 1967
Undercover agent Peter Urbach gets guidance from Kurt's man at a protest on Easter Sunday in Berlin in advance of inflitrating the student group.
At the Cricket With Arthur Mountain
Lecturer Kennedy is summoned to a day at the cricket with the Falstaffian Arthur Mountain, who informs him that university life has made Kennedy timid, bourgeois
31st August 1997
A scene in London on the day that the Princess of Wales died.
The Day After
It's the day after the night before, and the fallout begins.
Blessed With Ubiquity
Lola is taken to a ñáñigo feast where she is blessed with the gift of ubiquity: the power to be in two places at once.
The Keighley Three
Kilo is on a plane to Pakistan and finds himself sat with three lads from Keighley who quietly impress him.
Schrodinger’s Wave Dynamic
Jack comes home and feels like he's in the house of a stranger. Nothing would ever be the same again.
Aneroid Barometers
There's no such thing as nothing
I Am Not A Man, I'm Cantona
Eric is out on his rounds delivering letters, imagining Cantona is with him
Are These Men?
An extract from Paul Laverty's introduction to Even The Rain.
Letter to The Queen
On a march in London during the 1984/85 miners' strike, a letter to the Queen from the women of the mining communities is handed in at Buckingham Palace.
Richard Monckton Milnes and Florence Nightingale
The early courtship of Florence Nightingale and Richard Monkton Milnes