Where he was: memories of my father / Raymond Carver -- Memoirs of a bootlegger's son / Saul Bellow -- Hard man / Hugh Collins -- Sugar daddy / Angela Carter -- Finished with engines / Ian Jack -- And when did you last see your father? / Blake Morrison -- My father's life / Leonard Michaels -- Never let me down / Susan J. Miller -- August in my father's house / Michael Ignatieff -- Ramadan / Mona Simpson -- Impertinent daughters / Doris Lessing -- The many colours of blood / Candia McWilliam -- A letter to our son / Peter Carey -- Field-burning / William Wharton -- Waterway / Geoffrey Wolff -- Patricide / Beverly Lowry -- The business of mourning / Christian McEwen -- Family album / Mikal Gilmore -- Brothers / Sousa Jamba -- A very young dancer / Todd McEwen -- The names of women / Louise Erdrich -- The up escalator / Bret Easton Ellis.