'John Musgrave’s Corsica Girl is an engaging novel weaving themes of love and loss with the indomitable spirit of a rural tradition facing extinction. Set in the Welsh high country this pro-hunting novel offers a vivid portrayal of a world

Corsican Lament Years ago, turning out industrial articles for transport and engineering magazines, I used to relax by writing short stories. Some of these ended up in print in one form or another. This was stream-of-consciousness writing, not the succinct

7 October 2024 “Eh, Yohnnie, you know the British Embassy in Tel Aviv has advised you must to leave," said Tamir, down at the fish farm. I’d been working there since January 1981.  ‘Ha staphon,’ (the north) he said nodding

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