Father Quotes by Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

— Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and…

— Giles Foden

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance…

— Giles Foden

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

— Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security…

— Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their…

— Giles Foden

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

— Giles Foden

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

— Giles Foden

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all…

— Giles Foden

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

— Giles Foden

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

— Giles Foden