Blogs in December 2020

A Spare Life 9th December 2020

Zlata and Srebra are 12-year-old twins conjoined at the head. It is 1984 and they live in Skopje, which will one day be the capital of Macedonia but is currently a part of Yugoslavia. A Spare Life tells the...

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To the Lake 5th February 2020

Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a...

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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans 17th January 2020

Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for centuries more to come. It is an area of great contrasts — geographically beautiful, yet the underlying crust of the...

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Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy 8th September 2015

An amusing memoir of joining the CIA – much of the book is about the training, but eventually she gets her posting in Macedonia.

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