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Trail of Regret

Audiobook Free on Google Play Books for a Limited Time Use Redemption Code:  LRLHJLVRR55PD https://play.google.com/redeem?code=LRLHJLVRR55PD The last time Charlotte James saw Van Gogh’s famous sketch “Regret,” it was hanging on the wall of a museum in Cardiff. That means the version now lying on her desk is a fake. Or does it? Join Charlotte James, fine art consultant with a dodgy past, and a…

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Flirting with the Enemy: Artificial Intelligence and the Narration of Children’s Books

Back in the early 2010s, when home was one of the poorest regions of Wales, when sometimes the only food in the house was dried noodles, and when I generally had no idea where next month’s rent was coming from, I wrote three children’s books. Frog Dog Summer, Bird King Spring, and Animal Ark Autumn were conceived as a series. I was going to call it “The Cynon Quartet,” in honor of the particular…

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"Welcome to the Asylum"

It was an Argentine who welcomed me thus to Buenos Aires. The analogy made me laugh, for there is certainly some supporting evidence. (I personally think that the glorious madness of Buenos Aires has to do with Spanish people historically marrying Italian people and producing Argentinian people. The result is not unlike what happens when you mix bicarbonate of soda with vinegar.) To illustrate,…

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Duct Tape, Chewing Gum, Pragmatism and a Prayer: Holding Things Together in Buenos Aires

On Saturdays, the toilet cistern in my apartment refuses to refill itself. It doesn’t care much for doing so on Sundays and Mondays either, although it does oblige Tuesdays through Fridays. There is probably a perfectly logical explanation for this –  I just haven’t figured it out yet. I have sometimes wondered if there is a connection between the periodic banging about and whistling on the roof…