“Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.” — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“According to Yiannis' sister Irini, who had trained as a hairdresser in London, the British spent their long winters in grey and black, and… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“She remembers these as happy times - tomboy days, when she still glittered like quartz in her father's eye. Until puberty came along, as… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
