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The Vietnam War, Heart of Darkness and King Kong
I suppose no man comes home from war. Not really. Kong: Skull Island Fifty years ago, the city of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese and the Vietnam War ended. The country of Vietnam was reunified following a conflict that had lasted for decades, killed up to two million civilians and resulted in the…
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The Trails of Wild Things: Costa Rica, Virago and Mora Books
It was March 2020 and although I was merrily unaware of it, the world was about to change irrevocably. But before words like Covid, lockdown, quarantine, isolation, sanitiser became part of our everyday lexicon, before the UK government finally stirred its stumps and took reluctant action, and before society underwent its greatest upheaval in a…
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My Top Five Books of 2024
I love to read, in a way that italicises the word love. There are photos of me aged two with books in the family photo albums. I was one of those kids who read under the quilt with a torch after bedtime. My reading time this year has been scarce, crammed into short evenings and…
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