Editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood Marketing and publicity Stephanie Allen and Jennie Paterson Subscriptions Alarys Gibson, Anna Kirk and Richard Conyngham

Cover illustration: Ed Kluz, ‘The Silver Fox’

Ed Kluz was raised in the Yorkshire Dales and now lives in Brighton. He studied painting at the Winchester School of Art. He is a printmaker, illustrator, painter and designer, and finds inspiration in the historical objects, buildings, landscape and folklore of Britain. His eyes look into the past but his feet are firmly in the present: www.edkluz.co.uk.

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Layout by Andrew Evans

Colophon and tailpiece by David Eccles

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From the Editors

Return to Arcadia • alberto manguel

A Child in Africa • annabel walker

Desert Wisdom • justin marozzi

I’ll Be Gloria • laurence scott

Of Love and Lentils • robin blake

The Bird Man of Singapore • ralph harrington

Ignatius against the World • michele hanson

You Won’t Look Back • richard conyngham

Potentate of the Polysyllable • john walsh

Artless but not Heartless • patrick welland

Iced Tea and Hospitality • marie e. wicks

From Harry’s Bar to Delhi • tim mackintosh-smith

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