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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There’s a new reason to visit Tokyo, a Guinness record-breaker that gives a new purpose to a 30-year-old skyscraper. Entitled “Tokyo Night & Light”, the brand […]
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Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, begins this year at sundown on Sunday, 10 March, and will end with Eid al-Fitr on Monday, 8 April. The most important […]
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Slated for release in 2025, the fourth Bridget Jones’ Diary movie has been confirmed to begin turning in May, with pre-production well underway. Original cast to […]
The Naadam Festival is the biggest and most important annual celebration in Mongolia. With a history of over two millennia, the event draws citizens and international […]
Five local lads in occupied Luxembourg refused a conscription order to fight for the Germans in World War Two. They went into hiding in a home-made […]
The host city for this year’s Flanders Open Monument Day has been announced as Leuven. Taking place on the second Sunday of September, Open Monument Day […]
The Colombian government is preparing an expedition to investigate the San José galleon, also known as the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks”. The galleon is thought to […]
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The Netherland is planning on opening a National Slavery Museum in 2030, to “tell the whole story” of its colonial past and its repercussions. The plan […]