Alison Flood books/2018/feb/22/lionel-shriver-says-politically-correct-censorship-is-damaging-fiction THANK YOU Lionel Shriver! What wisdom! And thank you Alison Flood and the Guardian for publishing this feature In 2016 Claret Press published my novel Brushstrokes in Time which is mostly set in China. It was turned into an audio
Qu Leilei is a founder of the Stars Art Movement. When he told me his story it inspired me to write Brushstrokes in Time. Recording the trial of democracy leader Wei Jingsheng (1979) catapulted his life into nightmare. (again) He
Coming Soon to the Ashmolean. Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain (7 Nov 2017 to 15 Apr 2018.) This exhibition and the accompanying book should establish his reputation as a great artist . Reviewing Everyone’s Life is an Epic in
There was something poignant about receiving the news that sales of the audio book of Brushstrokes in Time (BiT) have been hit by hints of ‘cultural appropriation’ on the same day that Liu Xiaobo died . Liu appears briefly in
I am over the moon with this mind-blowingly wonderful review of Brushstrokes in Time in the Madras Courier and on their website too. The Madras Courier The free on line quality newspaper is reaching almost half million people mostly Indian
The thought of someone reading my novel over Easter is wonderful enough but her tears are strangely heart- warming. We all need empathy and now more than ever. I'm amazed by the brilliant reviews of Brushstrokes in Time on Amazon
Fifteen exciting new works of art by Weimin He went on display in the Bodleian Weston Library on January 7. Here is a taster. One of them has inspired me to write a sonnet which I have titled ‘The Mists of
A stunning eye- opening fictional tale set in China from 1963-1993; WILD SWANS MEETS DR ZHIVAGO, In September 1979 some young Chinese artists who had abandoned socialist realism were bravely exploring self-expression. They tried to find a venue to display
The Albion Beatnik Bookshop (34 Walton St, Oxford OX2 6AA Phone: 07737 876213) Thursday August 18 @7.30m A talk by journalist and author of To mark the 50th Anniversary of the showpiece rally of The Cultural Revolution which led to this!
You can see and read some of the reviews listed below on this url.url My first non-antiques feature in Weekend magazine, The Oxford Times’ equivalent of Time Out appeared in early January 2004. The arts editor, Chris Gray, titled it