Alison Fell

“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

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk…

— Alison Fell

“According to Yiannis' sister Irini, who had trained as a hairdresser in London, the British spent their long winters in grey and…

— Alison Fell

“Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were…

— Alison Fell

“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but…

— Alison Fell

“She remembers these as happy times - tomboy days, when she still glittered like quartz in her father's eye. Until puberty came…

— Alison Fell

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no…

— Alison Fell

The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake…

— Alison Fell

“Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when…

— Alison Fell

“All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping,…

— Alison Fell