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Cities that beguile, stories that draw us in

It’s absolutely fascinating seeing a city that you’re familiar with through the eyes of a visitor

Cities are fascinating backdrops for fiction, as every author comes at a place from a different angle. In my own fiction, I hesitated to write about my home town of Edinburgh for a long time, because it was already

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