Vietnam; the boat people, Philip Gourevitch; the Coral Reef, Tran Vu; saviours, Paul Eggers; savage winds, Bao Ninh; Hanoi, 1994, Ed Grazda; upriver, Redmond O'Hanlon; Gnossienne, Julian Barnes; never saw Brazil, William Boyd; the Fourth of July, Richard Ford; the hole, Romesh Gunesekera; Hemingway in Cuba, Norman Lewis; Shanghai Express, Germaine Greer; Ash Golden Kids comeback, Timothy Garton Ash.