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When Life Gives You Books

September 16, 2026
That evening, sitting amidst tower blocks of Victorian drainage history, Phineas realised Mrs Brown was right. Lemons were versatile. Books were heavy, flammable and stubbornly dry. But as the rain began to drizzle over the hill, he decided that if life refused to give him citrus, he would simply have to improvise…

The Lazy Club

The afternoon sun hit the vinyl couch at precisely the angle required…

𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝐓𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕹𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝑾𝖆𝖘

To review a book that contains not a single word feels initially like a nonsensical exercise in literary absurdity. Yet 𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝙄𝖘 𝑺𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊, printed in London in the late spring of 1598, is perhaps the most radical artifact in the history of the bound volume. Published exactly one year…

The Lost & The Found

August 16, 2026
Vincent stood on the drizzle-dampened pavement outside a soot-stained brick building that was squeezed between an artisan bakery and a dry cleaner’s. The faded gilt lettering across the frosted glass door read: Municipal Lost Property Office & Miscellaneous Recovery. He adjusted his collar, took three shallow breaths and checked his…

The Midnight Tinkerer

August 15, 2026
‘If one day,’ he thought, ‘all humans will be like me, then I shall become rich with my invention.’ He saw many billions flying before his greedy eyes. From that day onwards, Everett worked tirelessly to perfect his moonglasses.…

THE TROJAN UFO

August 15, 2026
For one hundred forty-one years, historians have insisted that the Statue of Liberty is a statue. This is, frankly, embarrassing. Much like the ancient Greeks concealed a battalion inside a wooden horse to breach Troy, the aliens disguised a colossal warship within a copper statue to infiltrate Earth unnoticed. The…

The Sandy Polar Bears

The task seemed simple enough on paper: stop this phenomenon before the pure whiteness of the polar bears is lost forever. Expedition teams equipped with vacuum cannons and giant lint rollers braved the blizzards, attempting to restore the bears to their pristine state.…

The Old Man and the Seasickness

August 14, 2026
He had tried every remedy in Pilar’s extensive travel first-aid kit. First came the motion sickness pills, which promised zero drowsiness but immediately left Braulio feeling like a tranquillised sloth. Then came the wristbands, which pressed small plastic beads into his pressure points so hard his hands turned an alarming…

The Lady-upon-Avon

August 12, 2026
To keep the balance of her world, Anne built a quiet, impenetrable life of her own. She did not define herself by the poetry he sent home or the rumours that drifted down the road from the capital. She became the true master of New Place.…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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