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I wrote about Returning to France after 15 years for The Irish Times

I moved to France in 1995 after 5 years in Brussels. I left for Malaysia in 2007, but a certain virus and an editing job I did on a certain politically charged book made a future there untenable. So I moved back to France and found a place quite different to the one I had left. I wrote a short piece for The Irish Times  about some of the changes I have noticed since I moved back, but unfortunately it is paywalled. https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/10/28/i-left-france-for-15-years-here-are-some-of-the-many-changes-i-noticed/

Le Temps des Cerises featured in Minor Literature[s]

  Bocar usually got home just before me. I sometimes wondered if we hadn’t shared the same train. He worked the late shift in an unnamed branch of the many-tentacled RATP. He was a ... read more or click the link below https://minorliteratures.com/2024/09/19/paris-i-marcdefaoite/

Walking in the Red Zone with my Grandmother's Bones - featured in the Honest Ulsterman

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I'm delighted to have this very personal story featured in the Honest Ulsterman https://www.humag.co/prose/walking-in-the-red-zone-with-my-grandmother-s-bones

Even more ways for you to pre-order LIME PICKLED and Other Stories

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Good News. Lime Pickled and Other Stories is now available for pre-order from even more online retailers. Here is a link that will bring you to a number of different options: https://books2read.com/u/3yVyyv

LIME PICKLED - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER on KOBO (and kindle) NOW

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You can now preorder Lime Pickled on Kindle. Buy today and it will magically appear on your device on the 31st of January. Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Also available on Kobo https://www.kobo.com/fr/en/ebook/lime-pickled-and-other-stories

LIME PICKLED - launching 31 January 2023 - watch this space

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 Here's the cover of my new short story collection - coming soon

LIME PICKLED - coming soon

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 Due to be launched at the end of January 2023