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Another Place To Die

by Sam North

Vancouver Pandemic

'Beautiful, plausible, and sickeningly addictive, this will terrify you and thrill you.'
Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk

Curse of the Nibelung
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

by Sam North -
'Chocolate will never seem the same again'
Sunday Express

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 By Sam North
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'a terrific piece of storytelling' Historical Novel Society Review
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The International Writer's Magazine - MAY 2008- Welcome

Destinations:
Travel stories & guides
Opinion:
Politics & Issues
Lifestyles:
Ways of living
One Fine Day…at the Bullring
Tyrel Nelson
Highly outnumbered, wounded bulls entered the rowdy arena to be stabbed to death by costumed men.
Cornwall diving trip
Rebecca Wass
The University of Portsmouth Sub Aqua Club journeyed to Cornwall for a fantastic week of diving

Brazilian Apartment Hunting
Auyon Mukharji
Last week, my friend Vinicius and I strolled around Santa Teresa, an artsy, bohemian neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro
These are not safe times to call oneself a thinker
Bryan Blake on US politics
Sounds to me like I need to improve upon the cubicle fort I’ve recently built to keep out the babbling idiots and social golems of the office

Arabic
Marwan Asmar
Compared with English, Arabic is an easy read if it is written well.
From Fighter to Paramedic
Antonio Graceffo in Manila EMS school
Having spent most of my life learning to end life, it is a bit of a change learning to save it.

Spanish Elephants
Colleen Kelley in Cadiz
Nine hours on a plane, two days of road trips with inexplicable vomiting, eight hours on a bus -finally we arrived at Puerto de Cádiz.
Seven Years in Asia
Antonio Graceffo turns 40
Until someone asked me I had no idea that it had been seven years since I had quit my job on Wall Street and come to Asia to be a full time adventure writer.

Big Adventures in the Minor Leagues
Brett A Padelford

A 3,250 mile trip through the American West experiencing minor league baseball in many forms
Postcards from Persia

John Edwards

On the way to Iran, John M. Edwards wonders if they play Uncle Wiggly in Tehran

Bpee Mai in Laos
Thomas Phipps
Travelling down the Mekong in a narrow wooden boat provides plenty of time to contemplate ones future; I instead listened to The Doors and imagined I was Captain Benjamin L. Willard on route to find Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now.

Taxi Hostage
Kate Mead in Ghana
It was 1:30 in the morning, and I was exhausted from a day of travel and a night of dancing.

Indulging in Derived Hell
Michael Levy
You would think after the Enron scandal and the dot com bust that human financial infamy and shamefulness would cease...well think again.
Eve of Destruction, my friend
James Skinner
Man is the only animal that trips over the same stone twice, or a dozen times!

Keystone Kop-Out + Readers letters
James Campion
Why Barack Obama’s Inability To Bury The Clinton Ghost Dooms November
Some Fools on a Hill
Darren Skelton
in Haxey
Round our way you see ‘Hood Day’ is bigger and better than Chrsitmas Day itself

Charlevoix's La Fete Des Saveurs
Habeeb Salloum

The elite of Quebec’s Charlevoix gourmet region simply enjoying themselves at La Fête Des Saveurs
The Regenerator System
James Skinner
A brief history of the world’s first telecommunications company
Serendipity and Rickshaws
Sam Freedman
Departing from New Delhi, I left behind the raw, musty smell of sweat covering every surface in India for the mystique of Nepal.

Czech Republic
Jay Caauwe goes in search of a beer
The uneasy look on our drivers face ... he had conscripted with three Chicagoans embarked on a Saturday morning drinking mission
FICTION plus
FICTION
Original Shorts
REVIEWS Film & Books
College in America: Weed 101
Alan Stokes

I found Flyn in our dorm, smoking a joint. There was a kid with him. I asked what his name was and he said his name was Zack. It seemed incredible but I let it go.

Coming of Age in San Francisco   
Martin Green
“The new campaign stinks,” interrupted Fiegelman.
Greetings from Caen
Gordon Bourgon
France, July, 1944, near Caen
Hello my little snowflake. Do you remember when I first called you that? My little snowflake. That terrible winter when we were twelve

The Ghost in the Machine
David Tavernier
There was once a computer named Daniel. All day long he'd sit and wait for someone, anyone to help him out of his misery.


Pushkin in Britain
Pure Russian Spirit with English Translation
(June 5th-10th in London)

The Festival is a wonderful and exciting Literature occasion literally packed with interesting events – readings, competitions, workshops and, of course, inspiration

New this June 2008

Mean Tide by Sam North
'Extraordinary novel about a child's psychic awakening'

ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4
'An engaging, unusual and completely engrossing read' - Beverly Birch author of 'Rift'
Be one of the first to read it,
order now

Iron Man
Directed by Jon Favreau
Starring Robert Downey jnr, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow
Jack Clarkson review
Nobody but Robert Downey Jr. himself could ever have played Tony Stark quite so well
The Last of the Warrior Kings
by Sarah Mussi
Hodder Children’s Books, 2008. £5.99
ISBN: 978-0-340-90322-3
Anona Evans review
Max is portrayed as a modern day hero. He is a lone crusader, fighting to restore the faith and property of an ancient civilisation.
The Beast Of Yucca Flats
Directed by Coleman Francis.
Dan Schneider
how I missed this is beyond me; especially given that its lead star is the truly legendary Tor Johnson, of Plan 9 From Outer Space infamy.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Director: Goran Dukic
Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon
Calvin Hussey review
To judge a book, or DVD as it were, by its cover the title "Wristcutters" doesn’t exactly conjure up the most positive of images.
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em and
little fleas have lesser fleas ...ad infinitum - Augustus de Morgan
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