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Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival

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After Bin Laden

Image: Denise Gould Dead or Alive So, Bin Laden’s pan bread. I can’t say I’m not glad to see the back of the Al-Qaeda leader, the biggest threat to the security of the World since Hitler, but I’m a bit … Continue reading

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Eight Years Down The Line

Image: Tim Pearce I remember it like yesterday. It was a normal working day until an email from a friend on a day off, arrived in my inbox: “A plane just hit the World Trade Centre.” Most of us thought … Continue reading

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Lockerbie Remembered

Image: Getty Images It was a night I’ll never forget. It was a night nobody in Scotland will ever forget. Twenty years ago today, Pan-Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 carrying 259 people from Heathrow to JFK, was blown out … Continue reading

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My Latest Epiphany

Life imitates art in the saddest of ways sometimes. A young girl has died in a swimming pool while on a Mediterranean island, reflecting almost exactly the tragic event that I am currently writing about in my novel, . When … Continue reading

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