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  • Location: Mauritius, St Louis

The Prisoner of Paradise

1825: Mauritus – the landscape of rootlessness .

  • Location: Rome, Latina, Lazio Region

The Italian Wife

1930s – Mussolini’s Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost?

  • Location: Battambang

White Crocodile

Later 20C : In  Cambodia there is a belief that a white crocodile, a character from ancient mythological tales can foretell death ….. “Fate will…

  • Location: Australia, The outback (fictional Drogheda)

The Thorn Birds

1920s – 1960s: The classic and timeless novel that is The Thorn Birds

  • Location: Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Death in the Rainy Season

2000s: The second book in the Commandant Morel series. Where he was once in Paris, now he’s on holiday in Phnom Penh on holiday. Well…

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Just a Little Dinner

2025: Parisians behaving badly: a dinner party implodes

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