Andaman Press Newsletter
Lockdown is a curious thing. We all want to keep safe but if, like me, you find confinement can be a bit tedious, then why not give one of my books a try?
My ‘Bamboo Quartet’ is a collection of four novels set in SE Asia during WW2. They can be read in any order.
The good news is, I recently got the rights back for these books and to celebrate, I’ve relaunched them with new titles on my own Andaman Press. They are available on Kindle and in Paperback. Please see the below links.
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A Daughter’s Quest The Planter’s Wife The Homecoming A Daughter’s Promise
I’ll be sending out another Newsletter in a month or two. In the meantime, I wish all my wonderful readers the best of health.
Published on April 10, 2020 04:09
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Review of Bamboo Heart from the Singapore Review of Books
Ann Bennett’s Bamboo Heart begins with Tom Ellis, a captive of the Japanese working on the Death Railway in 1943, in solitary confinement. It is in these opening pages and the narrow confines of his p
Ann Bennett’s Bamboo Heart begins with Tom Ellis, a captive of the Japanese working on the Death Railway in 1943, in solitary confinement. It is in these opening pages and the narrow confines of his pit prison that we learn what gives him the will to live. Tucked in his chest pocket is a photograph of a young Eurasian woman from Penang, Joy De Souza – this is but one of the threads in Bennett’s first installment of her WWII trilogy.
Bennett has given us a hybrid of sorts with alternating narratives between Tom Ellis and Laura Ellis, his daughter, a lawyer living in London in 1986. Tom’s narrative involves several non-linear time-splits of his pre-war life as a lawyer in London living out days of drudgery, and then as a young man managing a rubber plantation in Penang. Here we get a real sense of Tom’s paradisiacal life in colonial Malaya..
Read more at http://singaporereviewofbooks.org/201...
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Bennett has given us a hybrid of sorts with alternating narratives between Tom Ellis and Laura Ellis, his daughter, a lawyer living in London in 1986. Tom’s narrative involves several non-linear time-splits of his pre-war life as a lawyer in London living out days of drudgery, and then as a young man managing a rubber plantation in Penang. Here we get a real sense of Tom’s paradisiacal life in colonial Malaya..
Read more at http://singaporereviewofbooks.org/201...
...more
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