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Click for the opportunity to get trained to lead a writing workshop in Cambodia with Writing Through. You don’t need to be a writer, poet, or teacher and you don’t need to move to Cambodia. Training is scheduled for Friday, 27 October in Central Singapore.

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Click here for full details of the 2017 Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist. The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy makes the initial cut, as do Exit West by Mohsin Hamid and Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie.

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Amongst many other retrospects, tributes and obituaries, click here for the response from The New York Review of Books.

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Click here for my review of Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Ballin Kaur Jaswal, for Asian Review of Books. 

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Click here for Lucia’s interview, featured in the Wordsmith section of digital literary magazine Crack the Spine.

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Click here for Rosie’s review of Imprint 16, edited by Carol Dyer, in Asian Review of Books.

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Click here for my review of Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan in Asian Review of Books.

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Click here for my review of The Accusation / Bandi, in Asian Review of Books.

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I'm very pleased that The Elephant Bar, a short story I wrote for Illustrated London News / Raffles Magazine  is now online.  Never mind the words, I LOVE the illustrations. Click here to see them! The story is set in colonial-era Siem Reap, and concerns an ingénue mixing it with a mysterious Russian photographer...

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This is not exactly literary (!), but you may be interested - my piece for UK Telegraph on expat men doing the dirty with Asian babes... 

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It's more cookery than literary, but you may enjoy the account I wrote with Elizabeth Roberts of a colonial era cookbook, for the UK Telegraph. Click here.

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You may be interested in two pieces I have out today:

Where Are the Places in Singapore Related to Sophia Raffles? / Singapore Finder. This is tied-to the UK publication of  Olivia & Sophia, my novel about Raffles' wives.

To buy or not to buy a £50,000 car in Singapore? My weekly blog about life in Singapore -  although from now on it will be monthly, not weekly!

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You my be interested in my latest blog for the Telegraph, it's about Chinese New Year this week.  Click here to read it. 

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You may be interested in my review of Tales of Two Cities in Asian Review of Books. 

Tales of Two Cities is an anthology of stories from Hong Kong and Singapore. It's in the running for the blog's Book of the Lunar Year Award. Voting closes tomorrow at 9 a.m., so if you haven't done so yet, and you want to support one of the books on the shortlist, get cracking!! See here for details of the shortlist, and of how to vote.

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You may be interested in two pieces I have out today:

Who Was Olivia Cassivelaun Fancourt and What's Her Connection with Singapore? / The Singapore Finder

Expat problems: household help / The UK Telegraph (A jokey post for my regular Telegraph blog)

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You may be interested in one or other of these pieces, which I've had published this week:

Review of Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan / Yan Geling for Asian Review of Books

Interview with Elisabeth Koch, a milliner in Beijing, for the UK Telegraph

My weekly blog about life in Singapore for the UK Telegraph

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I wrote an account of viewing snow in Singapore, for the UK Telegraph. If you're interested, click here.

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My weekly blog from Singapore for the UK Telegraph is here, if you're interested.

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I wrote an account of the amazing building housing Singapore's new National Gallery, for the UK Telegraph.  If you're interested, click here.

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Click here for a very nice piece by Elizabeth Roberts, about my novel Olivia & Sophia, from the UK Telegraph.