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August 2016
Isobel's War


Earlier this year, I wrote a piece about my mother's experience of war, displacement and kindness for the Ullstein blog resonanzboden.

Here it is for the first time in the original English.

Isobel and Margaret
 

1 August 2015
Lenin, mum and me - my communist childhood


Read my piece in The Guardian.

Lenin, Mum and me
 

27 July 2015
Metro


Rabbits, Berlin, and Motherland in Metro.

Metro
 

July 2015
Drüben: Rediscovering Motherland


Read my piece on researching Motherland in the John Murray blog The Beagle

The Beagle
 

June 2015
MEET Jo McMillan


Read my conversation with Edward James on the Busywords blog here

Busywords
 

June 2015
Tamworth Never Forgets


The author At Foyles

Foyles
 

May 2015
Motherland - the facts and the fiction


Read about the origins of the story on my Curtis Brown Book Group blog.

CBBG
 

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