Featured Story: Hodal in Hodal
Welcome to Hodal. Having forever found my Slovak surname clunky, I was more than a little surprised to discover that it was also the moniker of two towns in the world. One Hodal is in Norway. The other is in India. In 2008, I visited both. The Indian Hodal is a dusty town split in … Read more
Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Nine Lives of Alice Jamieson
[published by the Press Association March 2009] I am stood at the top of the escalators at Birmingham International’s futuristically clean rail station when I hear the unmistakable shout of a child. “Kaaaaaaaa-te!” The voice calling my name should belong to a young boy, but when I turn around, I see no one but a … Read more
