Hors de combat
General Tulenkov said, ‘Are you comfortable? We can arrange to have an easy chair brought up.’ ‘No, thank you. This is fine.’ ‘Hors de combat,’ the General said, ‘and watching the ladies in their finery....
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April 16th will see the centenary of the birth of Sam Youd, better known as the dystopian and YA writer, John Christopher. When he died in 2012, Sam left behind 56 published novels and a...
‘It’s only just the other side of the bridge. We can walk it in quarter of an hour. What do you want a taxi for?’ ‘Not for me,’ he said. ‘But you’re a rich woman.’...
‘Shopping?’ ‘A bit. But it’s for the pictures really. There are always two or three English-speaking pictures.’ ‘By yourself?’ ‘Andy won’t go except to the foreign-language ones. He got me to go a couple of...
‘I suppose some men are strong without feminine help. I haven’t met one, but I’ve read about them in magazines. It seems a lot of women hanker for that kind of man. I don’t think...
The moon was high in the southern sky. It lit the ground beneath their window and the crowding distant peaks of the Oberland. Hibson pointed. ‘That’s the Jungfrau, isn’t it?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I’d like to climb...