Author of The Boy With Blue Trousers and The Concubine's Child
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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An evocative, multi-generational tale of a family haunted by the death of a young concubine in 1930s Malaysia.
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The Chinese trek for gold inspired my new novel The Boy With Blue Trousers
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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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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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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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Here are some discussion questions, should you decide to read The Boy With Blue Trousers for your bookclub.
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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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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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A writer of historical fiction dwells in the kitchens, barns, boats, farms, stables and workshops of many eras
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Carol Jones 