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Alan Miles

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in Tonbridge, The United Kingdom

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After an unplanned, unforeseen, adventure-filled life and career in the Middle East and the UK, and then a decade assisting his wife in her battle with dementia, Alan has plenty of stories to tell. Two of them are the books he'll be publishing in 2026.

‘The Foreign Aide’ is the fictional story of British expatriates who arrive in Lebanon in the mid-1970s, but soon find themselves watching somebody else’s civil war. At first they’re thrilled to be in the world’s spotlight, confident that as foreigners they have nothing to fear. They’re not involved — until they are.

'The Foreign Aide' is an updated, retitled and repackaged edition of an ebook first published in 2010 — 'The Lebanese Troubles'. Why republish now? Because the story is a cautionar ...more

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How I came to write 'The Foreign Aide'

Somewhere in Beirut, a couple of days after one of those temporary ceasefires that punctuated the first months of the civil war, a journalist friend pulled his car over in a narrow street and told me to roll down my window. The stench that filled the car was the dry dust of falling masonry and rotting garbage and burnt rubber. The buildings above us shut out the sun and the air. Street cats — all Read more of this blog post »

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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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