In 2025, my erudite friend Londoner Odai Quaye travelled to Accra for the first time to meet members of his extended family. In this interview, he shares his impressions of and thoughts on the country. You can hear him describe the trip in more detail and from the point of view of a neurodivergent traveller on the podcast Audible...
Andean America, before Christopher Colombus ‘sailed the ocean blue’ was host to a wide variety of peoples with distinctive religious beliefs, cultures and artistic...
Sometime around the twelfth century, a group of Quechua-speaking people lived in modern-day Cusco, in the Andean highlands. They spent their days herding camelids,...
Every so often, usually when everything is falling into place and you are congratulating yourself on being unusually organized and provident, Fate intervenes. Along...
My husband John Dolan's memoir Pleasant Hell has just been released as an audiobook, recorded at Telescope Audio with Brendon Anderegg. In celebration, here is...
