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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Dubai is set to gain the world’s “greenest” highway, if plans by city development firm URB go ahead. Aiming to turn the existing Sheikh Mohammad Bin […]
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and his girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez have purchased a €25 million piece of land in Dubai. The plot is located on Jumeirah Bay Island, […]
On Sunday 7 July, the plans for the Jebel Ali Beach were officially unveiled. The development project measures 6.6 kilometres in length and, once built, it […]
Emaar Properties, a United Arab Emirates real estate developer, has unveiled plans for the expansion of the Dubai Mall. The world’s second largest shopping mall, after […]
Dubai is set to plant 100 million mangrove trees in a coastal regeneration project at the cutting edge of sustainable urban development. The so-called “Dubai Mangroves” […]
Mercedes-Benz is marking its real estate debut with a luxury residential skyscraper in Dubai. With a location right next to the Burj Khalifa, the 341 metre […]
The world’s busiest international airport in Dubai will see its operations transferred to a new airport five times its size, within the next ten years, the […]
On 9 April, Spanish football club Real Madrid announced the inauguration of its first theme park, Real Madrid World, in the Unite Arab Emirates and with […]
Following the catastrophic rainstorms that closed Dubai International Airport last week, the President of Emirates Airline has issued an open letter to customers offering “our most […]
Deadly rainstorms sweeping across the Persian Gulf have caused at least 21 fatalities and sown widespread disruption across the region. Included in that onslaught, the UAE’s […]
Due to notoriously heavy rainfall that has been hitting the Gulf states since Tuesday, Dubai Airport is advising travellers to stay home as runways are currently […]
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) has unveiled a $10 billion (€9.3 billion) tourism strategy aimed at ensuring emirate’s sustainable growth by 2030. The […]