The International Writer's Magazine: September 2014 Editorial - Welcome

Destinations: Travel stories

Opinion: Politics & Comment

Lifestyles How we live

Summer of Chamber Music in Ottawa Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger For four weeks every summer, Ottawa is transformed into a magical setting for about one hundred and fifty chamber music concerts. Exploring Scandinavia: Reflections and Conversations - Irene Shaland Is the Jewish story of today’s Norway all about young people leaving the country to build their lives elsewhere? The Hypochondriac Traveller’s Guide to Ebola - Scott Masson Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about West Africa’s “Killer Virus” *Prince Christian Sound: awarded “notable essay." in The Best American Essays 2014 series (ed. by John Sullivan) published by Houghton Mifflin From our archives 10 Years ago: Rickshaws & Corridors of Power Colin Todhunter in Bangladesh The Singing Bed Larry Thompson in Africa Life Changes at the Edge of the World Racheal Walker in Cambodia

Obamawar 19/09/14 James Campion Okay, now the anti-war president is at war. This makes sense. Sure it does. Where is Saudi Arabia? Where is Jordan? Where is Turkey? Thank you Alex 21.09.14 Tom Kilcourse As Alex Salmond resigns, following defeat in the referendum, we English perhaps owe him a vote of thanks for shaking the tree of the oligarchy that rules us. Here We Go Again James Campion Iraq 2003 to 2014 - No Plan, No Dice Lessons not learned - words not eaten - advice not taken MacMuffins 21.09.14 Dean Borok One is compelled to wonder, what is the role of France in the Scottish separatist movement? Gibraltar Again James Skinner The Spanish Government has nothing better to do than to start yet another row with Britain over Gibraltar.

Salt Sugar Fat - How the Food Giants Hooked Us By Michael Moss Steve Wheeler review Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, the cigarette manufacturers, are now running a large part of the food business, it’s almost too much to believe... Visiting Japan Fred C Wilson 111 Mashiko is a ceramicist dream... St. Louis Blues Dean Borok Ferguson is a fascinating control group for anybody interested in speculating how far American attitudes have progressed during the last 150 years. The Effects of Social Conditioning Tom Kilcourse The anti-racist agenda in Britain is social conditioning of the kind used in authoritarian societies to achieve compliance of the masses Markets & Democracy Tom Kilcourse What does ‘free market’ mean? Coping in Laos Lucy Munday A chill runs down my back as I walk around the COPE Centre in Vientiane. I am surrounded by empty bombs - ghosts of the industry of war.

FICTION

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REVIEWS Film & Books

Stickball Martin Green We sometimes played stickball when we could get hold of a broom handle and when the older guys weren’t playing. Magenta a new YA novel from Sam North A tragic tale from the wilds of the Lincolnshire coast – a haunting story about father and daughter My Summer of Love Paul Michelson Sometimes, when I look back on my travels, it’s a brief incident, a passing encounter, a glimpse, a glance — something that seemed inconsequential at the time—that I remember most. How to Construct a Climate Change Simulator - Mark Pierro There seems to be an awful lot of hullabaloo about climate change and the models used to attempt to simulate climate change and its effects across Chalfont-Saint-Peter, Berkshire...

The Love Letters She Left Behind Abigail George And so I come to the lady in the water, the sinner’s biochemistry. Incredibly Closely Illuminated Abigail George ‘I worry about you. You’re too young to die you know. Get out of that profession. It’s going to kill you...' To the Milk Bar Susan Dale Hurrying down the hardscrabble roads with wheelbarrows bumping along in front of them, they stop to gather up the stony remains of a broken cathedral.

Found by Harlan Coben Sam North review ...as fast paced and quick to the chase as you’d want from the thriller writer Harlan Coben. The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick Indigo Pub: October 2014 (UK) Sam Hawksmoor review ... fascinating, tragic, and utterly compelling. Skink - No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen Indigo Pub: Sept 25th Sam Hawksmoor review an exciting adventure of a boy growing up and taking on responsibility for the first time in his life to save a girl The Reluctant Communist by Charles Robert Jenkins Leroy B. Vaughn review Charles Jenkins was an old worn out man in his late sixties, living on an island off the coast of Japan at the time this book was written.

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