Heinrich Böll’s novel, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, tells of a quite ordinary, decent young woman whose reputation was suddenly stripped from her by a tabloid newspaper. She, utterly incensed, shot the journalist who had defamed her.
The Guardian and Sarah Tisdall
David Caute
‘Sarah Tisdall belongs to a generation which has inherited from us a world sewn thick with 50,000 nuclear warheads.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
David Caute
David Caute is an author, playwright, academic, journalist, former literary editor of the New Statesman and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include Under the Skin, The Women's Hour, a documentary history of the war in Rhodesia, and The K-Factor, a novel.
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