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Michelle Lawson

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Born in the English Midlands, Michelle Lawson now divides her time between Devon, the French Pyrenees and less-familiar corners of Central-Eastern Europe such as Western Ukraine. Her interest in how place can be a portal to understanding ourselves permeates all of her work, both fiction and non-fiction.
Michelle’s fiction career has been inspired by her observations of people and place. Themes of manipulation and vulnerability, and the difficulty of separating a dream from reality, inspired her debut novel, The Wicked Game, set in the intriguing city of Kathmandu.
Michelle’s interest in migration, the search for a new life abroad and the gaps left by family secrets have inspired her non-fiction writing. An academic study of British incomers ...more

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Sunsets, sloths and dirt roads: Highlights of Costa Rica

‘How do you like Costa Rica?’
I told him that I thought it was a beautiful country… The mountains, I said … I told him I thought the people in Costa Rica were extremely pleasant … It was a green country, I said.
Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express (1979)

Why visit Costa Rica? For me, it goes back to a well-thumbed copy of The Old Patagonian Express. Paul Theroux’s journey from Massachusetts to

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	Travels in a Young Country: Discovering Ukraine's Past and Present 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House at the End of the Track: Travels among the English in the Ariège Pyrenees 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wicked Game 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House at the End of the Track: Travels Among the English in the Ariège Pyrenees 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way Things Are Out Here: Five Travel Tales it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journal: Write your thoughts and notes in this Journal: Bobcat on the Cover: Journal it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration: The British in the Ariège 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration: The British in the Ariège 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michelle Lawson rated a book it was amazing Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges by Lewis Baston	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A wonderful travel companion for understanding more about the lands and people along Europe’s borders An informed, sympathetic, intellectually curious yet very accessible book. It was a perfect companion that travelled with me as I was doing my own bi ...more
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