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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…

0.00% Crunch

It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the tubes. No salt to strain the pump. It was a perfectly engineered, mathematically flawless fuel for a perfectly miserable existence.…

The Lizard of Oz

July 11, 2026
Within minutes, a small crowd had gathered, cheering and throwing confetti made of rose petals. Lizzie tried to explain that her greatest achievement to date was catching a particularly fat bluebottle fly, but her protests were drowned out by the applause…

The Forest Purgatory

July 11, 2026
As a Detective Inspector, I had seen my share of grim discoveries in the Icelandic highlands, but the skull sitting in the black mud was entirely different. It wore rusted wire-rimmed reading glasses, and inside them, a miniature wood stretched into a misty distance…

An Awkward Play on Words

July 2, 2026
Tonight I must go to bad early. It’s not that I want to be naughty, you see, but my bed has simply lost its ‘E’. This leaves me with nothing but a wicked mattress and a pillow-of-sin situation. Honestly, it’s a nightmare. I tried to rest my weary head, but…
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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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