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Ghana in the Eyes of Odai Quaye

Africa
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...
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Publishing with Unbound, an Interview with Emilia Leese

Heroes
Finding a home for your book can be difficult, especially if you want readers to have that old-school sensory thrill of riffling through pages...
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The Way of Socks

Original Fiction
“Thanatos, get out of my bedroom!” As soon as the shriek reached Thomasina Kirby in the living room where she was folding laundry, that good...
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The Guangzhou Bag Swap

Original Fiction
In hindsight, Sarah may have seen a handsome guy pulling a purple suitcase through the departures lounge that morning, but if she did, it...
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21 Approachable Publishers of Literary Fiction & Translation

Publishing
If there’s one group of people who have already perfected the art of ‘social distancing’, it’s publishers. Like the endangered Ribbon-tailed Astrapias of Papua...
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The Case of the Missing Shadow

Original Fiction
One-Eye woke up one day to discover his shadow had gone. He made some preliminary researches. First, he twisted around to bite his back,...
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Diane’s Dizzy Spell

Original Fiction
One year after the first one, she had another. She felt it coming on with a mixture of dread and almost impersonal fascination. How...
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A Night in Asylum

Original Fiction
I am a businessman who travels for work. I can’t give my name or that of my company because, should those particulars be discovered,...
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A Tiny Taste of Tokyo 2020

Asia
A lot of aspects of Japan’s culture appeal strongly to me. The beautiful Kanji script, wabi-sabi, the serene and sad painting and literature, the...
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Thailand Works

Asia
During our latest stay in Bangkok, we were lucky to meet some people willing to discuss the history of this region and to introduce...
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MaxPhht Bangkok

Asia
When we arrived in Bangkok, the first thing I noticed was that it would not be practical to run outside. The sky was a...
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Creators and Destroyers in Colombo’s National Museum

Asia
    After visiting the National Museum, I had a dream in which a mass murderer walked into a supermarket with an arsenal of antique Sri...
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Life in the Kandy Kingdom

Asia
Kandy sits on a hill in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, ensconced in dense jungle and a curve of the island’s great river...
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