数量xxi, 410 pages ; ; 24 cm.
寄与者selected and introduced by Philip Hensher.
一般注記Spared / A. L. Kennedy -- Funny little snake / Tessa Hadley -- Come rain or come shine / Kazuo Ishiguro -- Physics and chemistry / Jackie Kay -- Remember this / Graham Swift -- Dangers / Jane Gardham -- The universal story / Ali Smith -- Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman -- The unknown known / Martin Amis -- Entry taken from a medical encyclopaedia / China Miéville -- Winter luxury pie / Peter Hobbs -- All the boys / Thomas Morris -- A nice bucket / David Rose -- Chapter 2 (from All that man is) / David Szalay -- Catholic guilt (you know you love it) / Irvine Welsh -- Poison / Lucy Caldwell -- The closing door / Rose Tremain -- if a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that, don't you think / Helen Oyeyemi -- The woman who lived in a restaurant / Leone Ross -- Every third though / Helen Simpson -- Moonlit landscape with a bridge / Zadie Smith -- The rock of crack as big as the Ritz / Will Self -- The fall of Mr and Mrs Nicholson / Gerard Woodward -- Justice for one / James Kelman -- Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict / Lucy Wood -- The clean slate / Hilary Mantel -- Fears and confessions of an Ortolan chef / Eley Williams -- Later, his ghost / Sarah Hill -- The pier falls / Mark Haddon -- North sea crossing / Helen Dunmore.