BORDER CONTROL AND OTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PIECES focuses on topics as diverse as border queues, childhood bullying, the closed frontiers years, travelling through Spain, and life in post-Brexit referendum Britain -- all of them filtered through Sanchez’s wry authorial eye. ----------'Until M. G. Sanchez appeared on the literary scene, no Gibraltarian writer had managed to capture the quiddity of the Rock’s hybrid society and the complexity of its natural and cultural ecologies with as much psychological insight and writerly verve as are evident in every one of his many novels, stories, and essays. With his prodigious and growing output of prose fiction and non-fiction, Sanchez has gained Gibraltar admission into the world republic of letters.’ David Alvarez, Professor of English, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA.----------'If you want to know how Gibraltarians think and feel – especially if you want to know more about their problematic relationship with Spain – then this is the book to read. Honest, insightful and – at times – very moving writing from Sanchez.' Dr Esterino Adami, Department of Humanities, University of Turin.----------‘In the 12 essays contained in this volume, M. G. Sanchez explores his developing sense of the relationship between Gibraltar, England, and Spain and their place in his personal world. His childhood memories evoke in fascinating detail his first back-street home in Gibraltar and his first experience of petty racism in England, while in adulthood he reaches out to India and China and the atmosphere of England in this age of ongoing postcoloniality.’ Dr John A. Stotesbury, Department of English, University of Eastern Finland.