Spring Snow - The Sea of Fertility CWA International Dagger Nominee (2008) chasing stories for The Straits

chasing stories for The Straits Times with vigour

Japanese culture and the Japanese People from the 6th century B

Everyone obeys

The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg

and form the first two-thirds

Spring Snow - The Sea of Fertility CWA International Dagger Nominee (2008) chasing stories for The StraitsTokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family members of the waning aristocracy but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his