Thoughts and updates from Mark
Christmas at Clouds, the drug and alcohol dependency centre that once treated Robbie Williams, will be as jolly an affair as possible. Editor Mark Allen makes the journey to this country house and meets its inspiring staff and patients. The road to Clouds House is...
La Perla is a shanty town sloping into the sea in Puerto Rico. Spotlighting the “culture of poverty”, it was this town that Oscar Lewis made famous in his book, La Vida, published in 1965. Mark Allen visited La Perla to see whether the picture had changed from that...
Puerto Rico has an enormous drug addiction problem. A few years ago its government was so concerned that it set up a special drug prevention department. In the second of two articles on the island, Mark Allen explores the problem and shows where initiatives have been...
Publisher Mark Allen is about to see his first novel in print. Former school friend Jim Potts, OBE, has followed the writing process and meets the man behind the story, a ‘compulsive’ psychological thriller