Blogs in November 2023

Hard By A Great Forest 29th November 2023

Tbilisi’s littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn’t even bring toothpaste. Saba’s father is...

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The North Light 28th November 2023

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and...

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THE SERPENT’S LAIR 27th November 2023

Max lands a dangerous mission on an Indian Ocean island quickly descending into chaos… Since a bomb blew him through a hotel window in Colombo, international fixer Max Donovan’s life has become more complicated. He in possession of a...

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The Women 25th November 2023

It would be the journey of a lifetime . . . ‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered...

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A Thousand Golden Cities 24th November 2023

In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous above all with war and...

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