Fict: Katherine Dolan's blog

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Ghana in the Eyes of Odai Quaye

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...

Pots and Peucetians

Bari has a wonderful, recently renovated museum devoted to ancient archeological finds on the Salentine peninsula (the heel of Italy’s ‘boot’). While it’s much...

Ten Saudi Women Writers

This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...

Running the Mozart 100

Last September we went to Salzburg so I could run in the Mozart 100 ultramarathon, officially called Mozart 100 by UTMB®. I'd chosen this...

Green-Wood Cemetery

"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...