Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to 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 the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
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Every year since 2013, Europa Nostra (the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural and Natural Heritage) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) select seven […]
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The Palace of Aigai, a 2,400 year-old palace where Alexander the Great was once crowned as King of Macedonia, is reopening its doors to visitors after […]