JANUARY 2002 - Real People - Real Lives - the writer's magazine - 29.01.02
EDITORIAL -In praise of a British Hospital

Dedicated to all those who have lost their lives in Lagos, Nigeria this week

Top Story Gremlins in the Toy Department • James Campion 'Firstly, Mike Tyson should be shackled to a spinning platform in the middle of some designated town square like Hugo's Hunchback'.

Power and Paranoia in Africa • Andrew Abulu from Nigeria looks at Africa in the 21st century Incaland • Zia Zaman in Peru 'The last sip of water I drink as I get out of the cab is like a tonic. I hold it in my mouth and savour it in my throat so as to make it seem like I had plenty remaining, like it will never finish'. Way out there in Timbuktu • Larry Thompson 'For the traveler who likes his pleasures lonely and his comforts few, the Sahara is hard to beat'. Going Around the World on a Bike • Al Humphreys Welcome to Syria. I met my first scary Syrians - a family of orange pickers who housed me, fed me, thrashed me at chess and waved me on my way the next morning laden with about 40 oranges. Discovering Sagada • Weng Docot 'With a good pair of binoculars, hanging coffins can be seen amidst rock structures of the opposite mountain'. Whitby • Graeme Garvey Breeze, tidal flux, desire and need continue to bring Angle, Viking, Dane across these waters as decades, then centuries, slip by. Some come to settle, others to take, each leaving their imprint. A Cape Cod Moment • Zia Zaman being perfectly lazy 'Passed-out girl in tangerine shirt twitches her toes in her foggy dreams of mundane workdays and traffic along the 101. I notice she wakes up, realizes where she is, and smiles'. War Story 2008 • Chris Morgan "Is there anybody in there?" he called but there was no reply or sound. Specifically, his goal was to locate, capture or terminate American public enemy number one, Osama bin Laden CAMILO JOSE CELA: master of Spanish prose • James Skinner reviews the Spanish writer's long and influential life Funny Money -The Euro arrives in Salignac • Barry Paton on 'holes in my pockets' Piggybanks in Spain await you • James Skinner on surviving the Euro in Galicia THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON IF... We spend five seconds listening to Senator, Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. James Campion on Buying the Peace

WORLD TRAVEL

NEW FICTION

LIFESTYLES

COCONUTS IN GOA Ewan Macaulay WINTER IN SALIGNAC Barry Paton and the big chill 2002 EURO DIARIES GOODBYE PESETA- HELLO EURO James Skinner WEEK ONE- EURO DAZE Barry Paton IMPACT ON GALICIA James Skinner

THAT DAY James Carey takes a road trip MAKING FRIENDS IN NEW YORK Brooklyn 1980 THE EXCELLENT WRITER WITHIN Michael Levy STUDY SCREENWRITING IN FRANCE Book now - SALIGNAC Foundation Beginners in March Advanced in May 'Polishing and developing that script'

RESURRECTION James Campion on innocent times GETTING THROUGH THE TEEN YEARS - Sara Towe has advice for Harry and Charles LIVING FOREVER Oliver Moor on eternal life ONLY THE LONELY Sara Towe on holiday blues WANT A SUNSHINE GETAWAY? Go Amber Coast Adventures THE 8 TRUE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS Amy Chan's Holiday Diary

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Reaction to Predictions 2002 Lionel Darmendrail ARGENTINA IN TROUBLE Sam North ARGENTINA THE BEAUTIFUL James Skinner PREDICTION 2002 Sam North looks ahead

SERENDIPITY A screwball romantic comedy THE YAKOTA OFFICER'S CLUB Luciana Lopez reviews Sara Bird's new novel set in Japan number9dream David Mitchell

FAREWELL UNCLE RUDY James Campion on Gotham's King CREATING THE CALENDAR Ian Bowie sets the date BENEFIT FRAUD Helen J Weston WHY YOU CAN'T SPELL IT Ian Bowie

There may have been one or two things she would liked to have become, but a “proper mother” never figured on any shortlist. She just wanted to be. Herself. With hindsight, that was probably the point where she’d taken a wrong turn. Amy Chan

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READ FIRST CHAPTERS THE MAKING AND BREAKING by Amy Chan Twins easy - Relationships hard MY WIFE VICKIE Stanger and Massa

REVIEWS -THE LIST SKYLINES Travel Writers of the Year 2001

'One ought never to devote more than two thirds of ones income to the ordinary expenses of life, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third'. Lord Burleigh

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