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An exclusive short story by Aravind Adiga who won the Booker prize for 'The White Tiger' -
As the Olympic torch passes from China to the UK, we're launching a grand exchange of our own, with a relay of short stories inspired by writers' journeys between the two countries. Hari Kunzru who travelled to China earlier this year, kicks off with the tale of an uncomfortably close encounter with pandas -
Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay write a new addition to the tale each week
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Nov 22 2008:
In the children's record of the Happy Prince,
before each gold flake is peeled from the Prince's body ... -
Nov 16 2008:
Geoff Dyer: An extract from the drug culture chronicler's new novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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Nov 15 2008:
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay
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Nov 15 2008:
Under the jacarandas,
The pigeons and the gulls... -
Nov 15 2008:
He fell in love with her - but does Jonathan Franzen still feel the same way about New York?
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Nov 14 2008:
Laurence Binyon: "With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea."
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Nov 14 2008:
Osbert Sitwell: "The long war had ended.
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Nov 14 2008:
Philip Johnstone: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is High Wood"
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Nov 14 2008:
Siegfried Sassoon: "Have you forgotten yet? ..."
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Nov 13 2008:
Robert Graves: "Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean"
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Nov 13 2008:
Wilfred Owen: "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark"
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Nov 13 2008:
Ivor Gurney: "What did they expect of our toil and extreme hunger - the perfect drawing of a heart's dream?"
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Nov 13 2008:
Wilfred Owen: "Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?"
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Nov 13 2008:
Ford Madox Ford: "That then was Antwerp ..."
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Nov 13 2008:
Extract: Rebecca West's novel The Return of the Soldier (1918)
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