A stranger walks into a church in America’s deep south, looking for sanctuary. Not religious, but physical sanctuary. It’s worked before. Many times. When the churchgoers arrive, they do not wake the stranger, carrying on their service around the sleeping figure. When finally jolted awake the stranger doesn’t speak and…
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Red Sea Spies by Raffi Berg is proof that true life can be just as spectacular, and unputdownable, as fiction
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2020 was to read more non-fiction books. It wasn’t that I have ever made a conscious decision to avoid them, there was just too much temptation from the world of fiction. Red Sea Spies by Raffi Berg is a brilliant example of what…