Fict: Katherine Dolan's blog

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...

Me and You and SARS-CoV-2: A Year in Review

Historians will look back at 2020 with the same fascination as arborists looking at one of those tree-ring anomalies that signal something cataclysmic—a wildfire,...

Running Away from Newtownards

We've been having an unsettled week here in Northern Ireland. The house we booked for December turned out to have an intractable internet problem...

Multifarious Fausts

What with staying 'safe at home', freezing temperatures and 3pm sunsets, this autumn has been a great time for finally getting around to reading...

The Story Problem: Five Tips to Tame a Plot

Lately I've been wrestling a ferocious shape-shifting beast of immense proportions that breathes fire, spits venom in my eyes and generally makes a nuisance...