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Irenosen Okojie Butterfly Fish a Nigerian Novel of EPIC Proportions on Radio Gorgeous
Irenosen Okojie Butterfly Fish Podcast Length: 24:54 Butterfly Fish is a beautiful, haunting novel that weaves together the story of a young, fragile Londoner, Joy, with that of a mysterious female who reveals herself to Joy through a series of clues. Binding them together is a mysterious artefact Joy inherited from her mother,…
The Book Of Memory – A Woman on Death Row by Petina Gappah
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah – Tells the tale of a WOMAN on Death Row Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. The Book of Memory is the story…
Bird in a Biplane – Tracey Curtis Taylor
Bird in a Biplane – Tracey Curtis Taylor Tracey Curtis Taylor was totally inspired to fly her biplane the same route as Mary Heath, who was the first woman in the UK to hold a professional pilot flying licence. This took Tracey from Cape Town in South Africa up to England in her…
The Mary Killen Interview: Sophie Sarin Hotelier from MALI
The Spectator’s agony aunt, Mary Killen, interviews Swedish-born Sophie Sarin, creator of a stunning and award winning mud hotel in war-torn Mali, in Africa. Sophie explains how she built the popular hotel – Djenne Djenno and how the war in Mali has stopped tourists visiting the hotel which is situated in the World Heritage…