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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…

Stung by a Horrible Thought

August 9, 2026
The memory hit him with horrifying clarity. It was August. The weather had been dreadful. His wife, Brenda, had been shouting from the passenger seat of the Nissan Qashqai about the traffic on the A30. Benedict had rushed out to fetch the beach umbrellas from the shed, shoved the door…

When the Rain Smelt of Cinnamon

August 9, 2026
When the first heavy droplet struck Kahurānaki’s cheek, he reached to adjust the woven palm cloak across his shoulders, expecting the usual sharp sting of an oceanic downpour. Instead, a rich spice filled the damp air, as though someone had tipped a sack of freshly ground bark straight into the…

The Last Truth Unearthed

August 5, 2026
At the edge of the scene stood a child holding an adult’s hand, watching the empty flowerbed with complete innocence. He was two years old. Twenty-five years later, he would be arrested for a murder that had already happened and had not yet begun...…

The 6 O’Clock Cicadas

August 1, 2026
She looked up towards the source, expecting to see a cloud of emerging insects. But she saw nothing. The dense leaves remained motionless. Instead, the cicadas were emerging from the sound itself, from the materialised vibrations...…
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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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Books of Our Continent

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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