Broad Street station, British Rail, everything we owned at the time was sold off cheaply to developers, who then sanctimoniously sold us back this narrative of humane regeneration and philanthropy.
Detailed, humane and with impressive cumulative narrative drive, Aurora asks profound questions about the viability and the ethics of interstellar colonisation.
By centring her narrative on the humane and free-thinking Thomas Cromwell, who believes in kindness, tolerance and education, Mantel has found a way to reconfigure the tired tale of Henry's lust and what it led to.
Strangest of all is the story of Habbakuk, a top-secret plan to build aircraft carriers out of ice mixed with wood-pulp, in which Perutz became involved, but it is actually the lessons of this wise, humane book, rather than the narrative, that are most powerful.
Ravitch's narrative is that America has humane local schools that are being threatened by testing wonks.
The Giant is a humane and humorous lover of stories, his narrative given in a rueful past tense of fable or fairytale.
Medicine practiced with narrative competence is a model for humane and effective medical practice".
The narrative never flags and its judgments are humane and nuanced.
It has dealt with - among many other topics - racism, sexism, journalism, death, war, the army, the Inquisition, the ambiguous nature of good and evil, and the uncomfortable power of narrative, all in novels that are smart, hilarious and humane.
