Other Writing

‘Bringing Stan In’, a short story commissioned by Whole Story Audiobooks to complement the audiobook of ‘The House at the Edge of the World’ is available on audible.co.uk: “Why do you want to be a boat builder?” “Because,” said Morwenna, “I like the way the boats grow.” Morwenna and Corwin are eight years old, wind-swept…
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João’s war – the Angolan civil war – was, as Angolans kept telling me, ‘the most sophisticated war in Africa,’ which meant that the oil on the one side and the diamonds and the elephant ivory on the other had purchased for all parties some impressive military hardware. They were proud of that.  This article…
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At first I enjoyed being the only person ever to have read The Dark of Summer. It was like coming across a deserted beach that can only be reached by boat. But then, glancing down Linklater’s exhausting bibliography (twenty-three novels, ten plays, six collections of short stories, three biographies and more) the thought began to…
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Once, when I was arguing with my Brazilian Hostess about the destruction of the Amazon, she snapped “You have no idea how big this country is!” That’s Brazil: big – grande – grand in size and gesture. So when the São Paulo Authorities shut down Latin America’s largest and most infamous jail, they didn’t just…
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