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with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia

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one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works

with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting

Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders

The Matisse Stories, A. S. Byatt lighting with whom he has aEach story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled