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October

••• The International Writers Magazine ARCHIVES 2026 - Lifestyles - Fiction - Travel - 27 years on-line
An Archive Issue
Destinations:
Travel stories
Opinion
Politics & Comment
Lifestyles
How we live

BuenosAires
Epic Argentina

Tabytha Towe
2026
What do you do when you have a dream, two weeks, two new countries to explore, and under five thousand Canadian dollars? You book the cheap flights

Cambodia
The Chronicles of Cambodia
Vlad Linder

I set off to a place, where you could hardly hear a foreign tongue and where you wouldn’t have pancakes with strawberry jam for breakfast.
Western Australia Road Trip: Pros & Cons - Samantha Lego
After 30 days, 7,364 kilometres, $1,500 in petrol costs, countless litres of wine and more than a dozen road kill cows, my travelling partner and I joined the ranks of hardened road trip warriors
...

Hotel Flora: Revisiting The Hotel Where Majed Abu Sharar Was Assassinated
Sama Abu Sharar 9.10.26
Stars and Spies in Rome ...

career
Ready for a Change: 3 Steps to Change Your Career Path at Any Age - Indiana Lee
It's never too late to invest in your life and career

The Lone Writer
Roy Valenzuela

There is an art form to the genre of the 'article' that is far removed from the beauty of yesteryear.
Vietnam
Hunger Artist in Hoi An (Vietnam):
John M. Edwards

The Old Town is caught in time, a dragonfly in amber, it’s intense medley of French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese architectural styles


The Certosa di Calci
Brian Appleton

Once when I was a teenager, I decided I wanted to know what it was like to be a monk. Somehow my mother arranged for me and my brother to spend two weeks in the Carthusian monestary near Pisa, the Certosa di Calci.
Declutter
Beware of tidying up your life
Sam North
You know how people tell you to declutter to make your life ‘simpler’. What they don’t mention is that it can lead to depression.

A Case for Secession
James Campion
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken


An Oxnard Thursday
Ben Hill in California

I came for Point Mugu State Park, the five-mile stretch of raw land between Malibu and Oxnard where Pacific Coast Highway runs free


REVIEWS Film & Books
Saving Shannon
'A gripping science-fiction thriller packed with mystery, suspense, heart and unforgettable characters.'
Saving Shannon
A Dying Town,
A Falling Star,
A Closely Guarded Secret

- new from
Sam Hawksmoor

Published
July 2026
Print & kindle

For USA go to Amazon.com

first chapter sample:
Moving Hay
Sam Hawksmoor
The time of the great experiment had arrived.  Genie really didn’t think that Marshall was going to get Chris’ theories to work.  He’d been trying for months now with no success, but it at least it made him happy.  Happiness was a new experience for her; it seemed to vanish like mist when you least expected it.
More about The Heaviness here

Octavia Street
Martin Green

Lately I’ve been thinking about the time I lived in an apartment on Octavia Street in San Francisco.

Air by Christian Kracht
ISBN: 9781805228844
Pub: Serpent’s Tail 2026
A beautifully written & harrowing story
In Bruges
Directed by Martin McDonaugh
Is there any more perfect British Christmas movie than 'In Bruges' Winner for Golden Globes & BAFTA
The Late Great Bruce Chatwin:
The Great Pretender

John M Edwards

Obsessed with nomads, he became one himself, ditching two successful careers, as Sotheby’s art expert and Sunday Times columnist, to roam the exotic edges of the literary wilderness.
The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
Nina Aumaitre

A beautifully written first novel about life and shingle beaches

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em and little fleas have lesser fleas ...ad infinitum - Augustus de Morgan
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