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FREE FREE FREE My first novel GO, is FREE on the Kindle, for the next few days. get it here Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you [...]

DIP, the film I wrote for the Channel 4 Coming Up season DIP Part 2: Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of [...]

Simon Lewis’s “Border Run” Simon Lewis studied Art at Goldmiths College in London, then worked as a travel writer in Asia. He researched the Rough Guides to China, Beijing, and Shanghai as well as writing for newspapers and magazines. His first novel Go (1999), a travel thriller about backpackers, was written in a village in the [...]

Slinging up random writings every now and again. MAN ON DESERT ISLAND NOT MAKING THE BEST OF IT Harvey Becker, stranded on a deserted tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, is lucky to be alive, and his situation is not dire. The island has clean spring water, the trees are laden with fruit and coconuts, [...]

URBAN NOIR NIGHTMARES – THREE REVIEWS Miami Blues by Charles Willeford Willeford wrote four great books featuring put-upon cop with bad teeth, Hoke Moseley. This was the first. They’re not police procedurals though, more like modern westerns. Here, Hoke is pitted against of one of fiction’s great outlaws, Freddie Frenger. Freddie’s a psychopath fresh from [...]

The old man pointing the crossbow at me wore a khaki shirt and no shoes, and his rope belt had a couple of carrots and a machete stuck into it. He was dark and small, and, I guessed, a member of the Wa minority. He chuckled. We were on a narrow trail, with bamboo groves [...]

I was sent to Beijing to write an article about the Chinese rock scene. Very easy – just going to gigs and talking to musicians; a record company obligingly set up interviews. For the last decade or so, whenever I’m there, I try to check out the rock scene, and I’ve always put a box [...]

I was sent to Beijing to write an article about the Chinese rock scene. Very easy – just going to gigs and talking to musicians; a record company obligingly set up interviews. For the last decade or so, whenever I'm there, I try to check out the rock scene, and I've always put a box [...]

I visited the set where my channel 4 film, DIP, was being shot.

Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan province, has plenty of virgin, old growth forest, where you can have an unforgettable experience of great natural beauty. Photos courtesy of CFP
Get off the beaten track and hire a guide to take you through the pristine, old growth rainforest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, Simon Lewis, says