This is an extract from a review by Asia House. To read the full article visit the Asia House website. New book reveals underbelly of expat life in Kabul A new book casts light on the realities of expat life in war-torn Kabul. London-based Cana...
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This is an extract from the original review. Read the full article on the The Middle East Magazine website… Dispatches from the Kabul Café I know Heidi Kingstone, writes Pat Lancaster. I wouldn’t say we were exactly friends but we bump into each...
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I’m absolutely delighted to be featured in The Bookseller’s first Independent Author Preview. A new initiative to give some exposure to indie-published titles, Dispatches from the Kabul Café was made an Editor’s Pick by Independent Author Preview ...
Continue readingHeidi joins Newstalk Radio for an interview discussing Dispatches from the Kabul Café.
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Photo credit: Nic McPhee, Flickr This article originally appeared on “What’s New in Publishing?” I immediately liked the idea of AdvanceEditions when Hector Macdonald pitched his concept of crowd-editing to me. It might have something to do wi...
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From the Times Diary (Nov 25th, 2014) Heidi Kingstone, a foreign correspondent, has written a book, Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe, about working in Afghanistan from 2007-11. At the launch she recalled the hedonistic lifestyle in the “Kabubble” o...
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…I’d travelled to Afghanistan to uncover life in one of the most turbulent corners of the world. In the four years I was there, I visited air bases and brothels, saw friends kidnapped and witnessed suicide bombings. I interviewed people in all th...
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This is one of my clearest memories of life in Kabul. The year was 2007, I had just arrived in the city and spring had come early. The sun shone and women swam in the cold water. Men and women wearing bikinis lounged by the poolside, swam in the...
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On the 12th November Heidi joins Frank Ledwidge, Arabella Dorman and Paul Moorcraft for a series of talks about Afghanistan and the folly of war. Attendance is free, and the event will take place at La Galleria, Pall Mall.
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This is an extract from an article originally published by EyesIn.Com on the 30th September, 2014. To read the full article, visit the EyesIn website here. Literature is littered with anachronisms and mistakes – from a striking clock in Shakespea...
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