Deborah O’Donoghue is a British-Irish writer who has lived in the UK, France and Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. Follow Deborah on Twitter and Instagram.
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The west coast of Japan’s main island suffered a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Monday, 1 January 2024. At only 10km deep, the quake and several aftershocks […]
Ine is a remote small town located on Ine Bay in northern Kyoto Prefecture. Ine is famous for its funaya, picturesque wooden boathouses constructed to house […]
Earlier today (2 January 2024), a Japan Airlines plane caught fire after colliding with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft upon landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. All […]
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In the fight against overtourism, popular Japan is planning to enhance its transport networks and introduce measures to spread the footfall of its current tourism boom. […]
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