“... Dionea sails away into the Mediterranean sunlight ‘in a Greek boat … singing words in an unknown tongue, the white pigeons circling around her’. Pater counted Lee as a disciple, but she had her own point to make about female sovereignty.‘Oke of Okehurst’ is, unusually among these stories, set in England. Alice Oke, like Trepka, has been fatally ...”

“... to be treated for alcoholism. Reilly began a relationship with a woman called Anne (surname unknown, possibly a colleague). He left Port Arthur at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Anne may have gone with him (they may even have got married) but she soon drops out of view and he’s making his peripatetic, priapic way back to Paris, via ...”

“... he did. Without much conviction, PiS had nominated as its candidate Andrzej Duda, a relatively unknown lawyer. He turned out to be a natural campaigner and an effective conduit for unhappiness with the government. Civic Platform had presided over uninterrupted economic growth, but it was weakened after its popular leader, Donald Tusk, left to take up the ...”

“... mess of all those intertangled working-class families, the ‘dissolving margins’ and the ‘unknown entities that broke down the outline of the world’; the huge, sloppy ethical and political questions, the incontinent, unseemly splurge of all those enormous books. As early as The Water Statues, Jaeggy could be bothered with none of it: ‘Such ...”

“... know where his friend had been taken, whether to the mines or the fields – Duck’s fate was unknown, as is the case for so many people whose stories can never be told.It’s a poignant tale, a seemingly fitting peroration to Grann’s argument about the inequities and silences of history. Before this, we’re told, Duck, Morris and their two ...”

“... on less savoury work in the private sector.At the start of the novel, she’s been sent by an unknown party to spy on the Moulinards, who are suspected of torching several excavators, worth hundreds of thousands of euros, as a protest against a government scheme to construct several ‘megabasins’: enormous reservoirs meant to mitigate the effects of ...”

“... of them were soon translated into French, but in the Anglophone literary world she has remained unknown and untranslated until now. The Unforgivable contains the two essay collections published in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). In addition, there are brief essays on Williams, Donne, Chekhov and Borges, some ...”

“... too late.Their critics on the left think this is crazy. Why wait to save lives? Why gamble on an unknown future when we can take action today? In an odd twist, the Keynesians of 2008 are the ‘lockdowners’ of 2020. Shut the schools! Stimulate the economy! Of course shutting the schools, now that it’s finally happened, will do nothing to stimulate the ...”

“... have their right foot cut off; 24 men are reported to have been mutilated. This is why, in 1997, unknown protesters with good metalworking skills cut the right foot off the bronze statue and sent a picture of it to the state’s main newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal. The accompanying note read:We took the liberty of removing Oñate’s right foot on behalf ...”

“... rows upon rows of mostly identified bodies in military cemeteries, and to the poignancy of an ‘unknown’ soldier who serves as a synecdoche for those whose names and bodies are forever disjoined, that we forget that the overwhelming majority of men who died in war between, roughly speaking, Marathon in 490 BCE and 1861 are buried anonymously. In the ...”

“... retrospective marvelling, as he sets off to America at the end of Christopher and His Kind, at the unknown future and the unknown life partner who await him: ‘He will be near you for many years without your meeting. But it would be no good if you did meet him now. At present, he is only four years old.’ Forster seems ...”

“... terms of authors I admire, like Conrad. I thought of Heart of Darkness, a tale, a journey into an unknown destination, to an unknown ending. He also said in an interview that ‘the whole thing could be a paradigm for what is happening’ in Northern Ireland. Originally, I’d have said that wasn’t true, but maybe ...”

“... was sceptical. He found it ‘nearly impossible that so important an object would have remained unknown and hidden’ for almost seventy years. Tawadros was said to have sold the stele just a decade after Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, and just eight years after he revealed the gold funerary mask. These were global events. Audiences in both ...”

“... of all time.’Palantir’s expansion in the UK has been rapid. A decade ago the firm was largely unknown here. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds in everything from financial regulation to local government. Its head of UK operations, Louis Mosley (grandson of Oswald), appears regularly in the British media. Although usually ...”

“... with patience and sympathy’. However, she says, the belief has also encouraged fears of an unknown evil among child protection workers ... and seems to generate an obsessional desire to find out what happened ... which added to their own stress and obscured the children’s needs ... People are reluctant to accept that parents, even those classed as ...”