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The Ingredients for ‘Whale Boy’

The title of ‘Whale Boy’ tells you pretty much what this book is about – a whale, in this case a young, wild, male, sperm whale, and a boy, Michael, who lives on a fictionalized Caribbean island. Over the last 35 years I’ve spent some of the happiest times of my life on board small […]

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Dominica Diaries

I’m back from the tropical wonderful-ness that is Dominica. Outside, here in Wales, the weather is doing comedy rain, rain so hard, so visibility-obscuring as to be faintly ridiculous and artificial looking; the kind of rain you get on cheap, made-for-TV movies when a guy with a big hosepipe is standing just out of frame […]

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