Beggarswell Close

…That is to say, he ensconced her in an apartment in Beggarswell Close, Little Mogadishu, sublet from a certain Mr Warsame Bishaar Dihoud who, for certain reasons which he never did care to disclose, had found it expedient to quit those purlieus and renew his acquaintance with the Kismayo of his childhood. In this manner, Lady Snatch settled, or at any rate subsided into a routine, or at any rate…

…graces, and entertained no scruples with respect to welcoming all and sundry to her place of business in Beggarswell Close, Little Mogadishu. Her charity extended even, that is to say most especially, to those adherents of the Eglise de la Bouteille, who made it their practice to congregate upon Turbo Island opposite the Ghastly Hipster Opposite Turbo Island. Lady Snatch maintained her cultural salon principally on those days when business…

…Hawksmoor Perroquet was greatly distressed to learn of the terrible calamity which had befallen the excellent citizenry of Beggarswell Close. Moreover, his sorrows were in no small way exacerbated by the appearance, for reasons entirely obscure to him, of his own name at the top of the list very punctiliously published in the Bristol Evening Post of those deemed culpable for the disaster. Particularly galling it was that his own…