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“... Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos over the last decade. In Scam, Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo show that the industry depends on a second layer of deception. Most scammers have themselves been scammed. The tens of thousands of Chinese, Ethiopians, Ugandans, Filipinos, Pakistanis and others who carry out the grunt work have been ...”

“... of the South Korean Army were to play a decisive role. Most notable of all was a young major, Bo Hi Pak, who has almost become Moon’s co-equal in the movement. Pak, with several other young officers, was the intermediary between the Moonies and Kim Jong Pil, the architect of the 1961 coup d’état which replaced Syngman Rhee with President Park Chung ...”

“... this trolley is ‘born’ in an industrial estate outside Chelmsford. Like all the machines in Bo Fowler’s sketchily imagined future, it is fitted with a silicon chip that enables it to remember and think. For the first three weeks of its life, its circuits are filled with information about products and store closing times; then it is sent to the St ...”

“... whether it’s a letter or a novel or whatever. Don’t risk giving offence with halitosis or BO! Bowles’s anxiety not to give offence developed early. In his autobiography Without Stopping (1972) – a self-portrait so unrevealing that William Burroughs renamed it Without Telling – Bowles describes some of the ruses and deceits he evolved so as to ...”

“... paragraph of Scarlett Thomas’s ‘Mind Control’, the story that starts the collection: Mark got his Dreamcast five minutes before he died. His mother wanted it buried with him. The story is narrated by Mark’s girlfriend, who is living with his parents, and acting as a nursemaid-cum-housekeeper to both of ...”

“... bowel movements or not but I do remember that I raised my hand. I remember changing my name to Bo Jainard for about one week. I remember not being able to pronounce ‘mirror’. I remember wanting to change my name to Jacques Bernard. I remember when I used to sign my paintings ‘By Joe’. I remember a dream of meeting a man made out of a very ...”

“... among the very first deliberate actions of their lives. Hiding games, such as playing peep-bo, are among the earliest games small babies take to, long before they have the slightest interest in trying to talk. And when, later, they continue to use hiding in play, they do it in a way scarcely distinguishable from that of puppies, kittens and other young ...”

“... as ‘urban pastoralism’, a late millennial equivalent of the rococo’s pleasure in swains and Bo-peeps frolicking in hayricks. ‘A pervasive and disabling irony becalms the work,’ he writes, ‘in a manner that is supposed, in conventional wisdom, to challenge the viewer but which in fact conveniently opens up demotic material to safe aesthetic ...”

“... summer of 1846, he was being asked to give drawing lessons to Queen Victoria. He first made his mark, if not quite his name, with the astonishing Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, the first part of which appeared in 1830. Working from live models in the gardens of the newly established Zoological Society, the 18-year-old Lear produced ...”

“... wrote of their sex games. ‘She loves me to be her girls, which I love to be.’ But he played Bo-Peep less often than Torquemada. He spat at her and denounced her as a whore and a moron. More than ever concerned with size and hardness, he boasted that one month he gave her ‘Mr Scrooby’ 55 times. Yet as in his first three marriages, he flirted and ...”

“... local book. A selfie stick of a book. Our Thomas Centre appears, ‘atrium’ and all. Our Bo Diddley Plaza, with its homeless and its Occupy and its Friday rock concerts. Our uncontained, ballooning university. Our ‘downtown library’, where I once heard Groff give a reading. The wicked, moustachioed otter – a Terry-Thomas of an otter, I’ve ...”

“... otherwise is, as Harryboy Boas says in Alexander Baron’s novel The Lowlife (1963), ‘the mark of the outsider’. Rather, Hackney is the first step out, geographically and socially, ‘a Victorian-Edwardian suburb swallowed up by London, broad streets, little villas and big tradesmen’s houses; and now, among these, little factories and workshops ...”

“... private language. They have nicknames, ‘Blondy’and ‘Poll’, and so does he, ‘Boaz’or ‘Bo’. Their father, Lord Beauchamp, who had been driven out of the country following allegations of homosexuality by his brother-in-law, the Duke of Westminster, is known as ‘Boom’, which becomes a synonym for any father, including Arthur Waugh. Because Miss ...”

“... Cat and an Owl, were all his worldly Goods.’ Mr Pilkington’s resemblance to the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo was not enough to render him amiable. After a promising beginning their marriage disintegrated. According to Mrs Pilkington, when her husband was fortunate enough to be made chaplain to Alderman Barber, he went to London, abandoning Laetitia, and lived openly ...”

“... whose parents were born in Bangladesh. ‘No matter how many times you give them information, or mark their card, they still contaminate the bloody recycling bins. They hide all sorts of stuff at the bottom of the organic bins – like machine parts. There’s no telling them.’ He showed me one of the bins outside a large house; it had grass on the top and ...”