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 Year of the Dragon started on 10 February, kicking off the 15-day Chinese holiday called Spring Festival. However, with preparations starting ahead of the New […]
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On 2 February, the European Commission published a draft initiative to increase Schengen visa fees this year by about 12%. If the proposal is approved, the […]
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Brits who live or plan to buy property in France have been recalibrating their plans after France’s Constitutional Court rejected a proposal to let them stay […]
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