Looking forward to meeting some of my Malaysian readers.
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Carol Jones is the author of 'The Concubine's Child', set in 1930s Malaya and The Boy With Blue Trousers set in 1850s China and Australia. Born in Brisbane, Australia, she taught English and Drama at secondary schools before working as an editor of children's magazines. She is also the author of several young adult novels as well as children's non-fiction.
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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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The Trek for Gold
The Chinese trek for gold inspired my new novel The Boy With Blue Trousers
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Friendship is the the light that sustains two girls torn apart by poverty
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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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Of Tools and Implements in Old Nanjing
A writer of historical fiction dwells in the kitchens, barns, boats, farms, stables and workshops of many eras
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