Author: Mitsuko Nagasaki

Not Quite Julia “Julia! Again? Good heavens, child, youre an utter disaster! How on earth can you

A Simple Woman Took an Empire 25 April I never thought deleting my wifes name from a party guestlist

Saturday, 7th October I can’t stop thinking about what happened today; it’s as if the memory

When she was a tenyearold girl, Ethel went with her parents to a cousins wedding in a small town in Yorkshire.

Sometimes life delivers its hardest lessons with an elegance that leaves you changed forever.

Abandoned for Love When her mother returned from work that evening, she seemed oddly animated, her cheeks

For nearly a year, every week, a little English girl of six would leave slices of bread on a grave her

The Last Passenger on the Night Bus The torch was tiny, no bigger than a finger, dangling from a plaited cord.

When we set off for a break in the countryside, we brought along our city cat, Percy. Out in the village

A Letter From Myself The envelope was orange. Garishly brightlike a satsuma lost in a snowdrift come January.