Portsmouth-based author Tom Sykes will publish his new book The Years of Travelling Anxiously on 26th March. Over the last twenty years, Tom has been lucky enough to travel all over the world. But his [… read more ]
On December 9th, S&C Founding Editor and author Tom Sykes will be launching Tangled Saviours, an energetic, imaginative and self-aware novel of race, gender, culture, prejudice and redemption. Extraordinary characters connect across time and space [… read more ]
Award-winning Filipino author, journalist and photographer Karl R De Mesa reports further on the Covid lockdown in Metro Manila, a megacity of at least 12 million people. In this latest piece, originally published in Transit Dialogue [… read more ]
Ever wondered how the Covid pandemic is affecting other parts of the world? In this eye-opening photo essay originally published in Transit Dialogue magazine, the acclaimed and award-winning Filipino author, journalist and photographer Karl R [… read more ]
Father Claro Conde, Parish Priest of the Corpus Christi with St Joseph diocese in Portsmouth, has been raising awareness about the British-based Filipinos who have died from COVID-19 and providing moral and spiritual support to [… read more ]
As part of Portsmouth BookFest 2020, several S&C regulars plus guests from out of town will discuss their travel-inspired poems, novels, articles and reportage – and how you can use your own experiences to create [… read more ]
In advance of his lecture at the University of Portsmouth’s Global Week on 19th March at 5pm at the Eldon Building, Filipino poet, journalist and activist Gene Alcantara discusses the unprecedented crisis engulfing his home [… read more ]
Author and S&C co-founder Tom Sykes‘ new ‘political travelogue’, The Realm of the Punisher, is published today by Signal Books. It records the last nine years’ of Tom’s visits to the Philippines, a country now [… read more ]
A paradise, a sanctuary to an amazing variety of fauna and flora found nowhere else in the world. It is blessed with awesome landscapes and its steeply sloped mountains are canopied by virgin forests. This [… read more ]
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