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Alec Forss

riginally from the outskirts of Birmingham, Alec has lived in Sweden for the past ten years where he works as a writer, editor and researcher. Covid-19 and the birth of his son have seen him mainly confined to walks and paddles near to his home in Stockholm’s inner archipelago. He is looking forward, however,

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