Outside the Court of Justice in Valletta I said in podcast interviews for my book A Sunny Place for Shady People that accused murder mastermind Yorgen Fenech would never spend another day behind bars after he was released on bail. When he was arrested in November 2019 while attempting to flee Malta in his yacht, Fenech said, “If I go down, everyone goes down with me.” He knows too much...
Join me on the Interlocutor podcast I spoke with Tyrel Eskelson of the Interlocutor Podcast recently and the episode was published yesterday. It starts with some questions about my first book, Vagabond Dreams. That was a nice surprise because it all seems so long ago. We also talked about breaking into magazine travel writing. And of course life in Malta and my recent book A Sunny Place for Shady...
The back cover of my book A Sunny Place for Shady People refers to Malta as “an island so small that few knew it was an independent country and even fewer could find it on the map”. It isn’t a sleight at Malta’s size, or an accusation of insignificance. It’s a comment on how little foreigners know about a country whose strategic location at the centre of the Mediterranean placed it in...
A short post-Canada update now that I’m back in Berlin. Thank you to everyone who packed the room for my talk at the Prescott Public Library. Special thanks to those who spent hours on the highway driving from Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Syracuse NY. It was nice to see so many old and new faces — especially on a sunny summer Saturday when everyone would much rather be outdoors...
I’m doing an author talk at the Prescott Public Library next Saturday May 25th. That’s Prescott, Ontario. Not the other Prescott in Arizona. Start time is 1:30pm. I’ll speak for about 20 minutes, and will do two readings from A Sunny Place for Shady People, followed by Q&A and signing. I’ll have copies of the book available on site if you’d like to buy one (or three) directly from me. The...
Did you miss our live launch conversation for A Sunny Place for Shady People? I know the start time didn’t fit everyone’s schedule. It was 1am here in Berlin — but I’m far sharper past midnight than I am in the morning, so I didn’t mind. I spoke with Jeremy Bassetti, host of the excellent Travel Writing World podcast, about: why I moved to a country I’d never been to the history of this...