Writers of fiction own a strange something that wills and works for itself. It can feel like another being within the individual that often does not listen to the structured visions created in the head of a novelist, and drawn up in tight plans for a future book…
Historical fiction raises the question, what really is history? The knowledge of events and things that come down to us through the mists of time have inevitably changed perspective over and over again in their telling. Often those who have handed down the past to us in their writing, have deliberately distorted the information, so …
At one point in my life I became a suspected murderess. I was living in Japan at the time, and became interested in the life of Edith Carew, an Englishwoman who had lived in Japan at the end of the 1800s. Edith had settled with her husband in the port city of Yokohama, one of five treaty ports where foreigners were allowed to reside…
As a nation Singapore is a little over 40 years old. Although today it is a stable and affluent oasis in a region known for corruption and instability, it is breathtaking to realize how recently it was something entirely other; a lawless, poverty stricken country, with no sense of itself.