You know the old saying, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.
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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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One of the things I enjoyed most about the novel was the almost 19th-century use of an omniscient narrator.
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Six Tips for Revising
The most difficult part of revising is tricking your brain into seeing your work in a new way.
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A Day in This Writer’s Life
I am definitely not the kind of hardworking writer who gets in three hours of writing before breakfast.
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No peeve is too petty, no excess is too great for the uber-rich characters in Kevin Kwan’s third novel.
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Let’s hope Melanie Cheng decides to write a novel next!
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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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Jade Archer Rings
It’s quite ironic that a tool of war evolved into a piece of statement jewellery.
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Southern China — Tulous of the Hakka
I love revisiting holiday snaps and doubly so when they help my research.
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I expected to like ‘The Buried Giant’ but in fact I loved it!
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