“You didn't tell me about career day.” “Issokay,” he said, combining the two words together. “I told them about you.”

I like to relax pottering about the house doing this and that at the weekends.

In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of Thieves! Police! Burglars!

Flying through the turnstiles, our fists were already clenched, in my mind I could already hear the crunch of knuckle on tooth, the doof of forehead on nose and the twock of boot on head. But as it turned out, that's all […]