Charles Laurence

has reported from every corner of the USA and the New World. He currently lives with his teenage son and a dog in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, and Woodstock, New York.

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Locals and donkeys approve of my beach house

Series concluded: Charles Laurence finally moves into his renovated beach house in Turks and Caicos

First Posted August 18, 2008

A house to make Caribbean ghosts proud

Part 5: Keep it simple, Charles Laurence thinks, as his no-mod-cons beach house in the Turks and Caicos gets started

First Posted August 11, 2008

My dream - and my bank balance - are in danger

Part 4: Local politics raise their ugly head as Charles Laurence seeks to renovate his beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos

First Posted August 4, 2008

A not-so-charming case of termites

Part 3: An unhappy discovery interrupts Charles Laurence's dream of buying a beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos

First Posted July 28, 2008

Who really owns the Charming House?

Part Two: In which questions of ownership become a vexed issue for the author

First Posted July 21, 2008

Cool cat under a hot tin roof

Part One: the author tells how he found his ramshackle house in the Turks & Caicos islands

First Posted July 15, 2008

Laura Bush stripped bare

A new novel imagining the First Lady's sex life has Republicans blushing

First Posted July 10, 2008

Material boy meets Material Girl

The reported friendship of A-Rod and Madonna would be a meeting of mighty egos

First Posted July 8, 2008