Author(s): Ian Jack (ed)

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It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier Jonathan Taylor on a boyhood spent caring for a father with Alzheimer s disease ( Who are you?); Georgia Blain on her Australian teacher's love for Chinese Communism; Katya Krausova on the Slovak survivors of the Holocaust; James Lasdun on Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. (How does Los Angeles bury its dead today?); Tim Adams on a formative influence; Melanie Macfadyen on all the houses she's ever lived in: from Dorset to Potsdam; Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew; Sean Wilsey on his devotion to cycling. And new fiction by David Malouf, Rebecca Miller and Claire Keegan. First published November 2006. About the editor: Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published in 1987. He lives with his family in London.