There is no escaping the label Third Culture Kid (TCK); I am a grown-up one. I would be in good company if more people knew that President Obama is one too. An Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) is an ug...
I was in the middle of reading a description of a suicide scene in The Last Life, when my mum walks into my room with the cat in her arms asking whether I had let him out. Now this may sound normal (...
Click to view slideshow. The Berlin that is famous for all-weekend parties and underground art scenes, hipsters and fashionistas; it is an extrovert’s paradise. This weekend, I did some of thos...
There are many ways in which you can put someone off reading a book. The trap I fall into is that of the overly enthusiastic advocate. “You MUST read this book” When I read Not Untrue and...
I came across Dialogue Books, a boutique English-language bookshop in Berlin, as I was searching for something to join that wasn’t to do with bars and parties. Don’t get me wrong, I am fa...
I think my love of Judith Kerr’s children’s books is only surpassed by that of my Mum. She is a primary school librarian after all. The next moment I see her I am showing her this wonderf...
Reading a book that is set in the same place as where you happen to live (or are visiting) is a way to unearth secrets about that the place that you wouldn’t otherwise discover. I read this blo...
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