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Hyde Park Corner is what happens when a bunch of urban planners take one look at the grinding circle of gridlock that surrounds the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and think—that’s what we want for our town.

— Ben Aaronovitch The Hanging Tree (2016)

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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

I wondered, not for the first time, whether all farmers become obsessed or if only obsessive people become farmers.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

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