The Chinese trek for gold inspired my new novel The Boy With Blue Trousers
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The Concubine’s Child
An evocative, multi-generational tale of a family haunted by the death of a young concubine in 1930s Malaysia.
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The Boy With Blue Trousers
From the mulberry groves of the Pearl River Delta to the shores of South Australia, comes an epic story of Australia’s gold rush
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Writing as Julie Brooks
Looking for more of my books? I also write as Julie Brooks.
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The Trek for Gold
Bullock Teams and The Boy With Blue Trousers
In southeast Queensland in the 1920s, my grandfather worked as a timber cutter driving a bullock team on steeply timbered hillsides
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Ten Things To Do In Kuala Lumpur
Here are a few of my favourite things to do in Kuala Lumpur, the setting of my novel ‘The Concubine’s Child’.
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Writing as Julie Brooks
Looking for more of my books? I also write as Julie Brooks.
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Book Tour
Looking forward to meeting some of my Malaysian readers.
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The Memory Police is a new translation of one of Japan’s foremost writers
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Bookclub Questions – The Boy With Blue Trousers
Here are some discussion questions, should you decide to read The Boy With Blue Trousers for your bookclub.
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The Boy with Blue Trousers – Research Video Two
A video taken in the ruins of Kangaroo Inn on the road from Robe, SA, a stopping point along the route that the Chinese miners took to the goldfields in the 1850s.
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Researching The Boy with Blue Trousers – Video One
A video taken on location in Robe, SA, where the Chinese miners landed
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A novel of the Haenyeo divers of Korea
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Friendship is the the light that sustains two girls torn apart by poverty
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Carol Jones 