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  • Location: Bejing (Peking)

The Foremost Good Fortune

2007 – Imagine travelling to Bejing for your husband’s work and then finding out you have breast cancer? How do you cope with living in…

  • Location: Hong Kong, London, Dublin, New York City (NYC)

A Family Scandal

21C: Three sisters return to Dublin to face the past they thought they had buried  20 years earlier when someone they all knew died in…

  • Location: Kashgar, London

A Lady’s Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

1920s and present day – Kashgar, one of the most remotest cities in China in the 1920s, and the journey told via the pages of…

  • Location: Shanghai

A Loyal Character Dancer

1990s – Second in the Inspector Chen Cao series, this is a police procedural set in Shanghai, featuring a man who as well as a…

  • Location: Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet

2000s: A trip and pilgrimage done in memory of his mum and  “on behalf of the dead”.

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A Granite Silence

1934: A notorious true crime case

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