The Flame Tree (Hong Kong Saga Book 2) by Siobhan Daiko #BookReview #HistFic

Based on a little-known true story, from award-winning author Siobhan Daiko comes a tale of love and survival against all the odds set in Hong Kong at the start of the Pacific War. In the spring of 1939, dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean

Culture Clash #SquareOdds

I love both these buildings for different reasons. And fancy seeing a Dennis Fire Engine, built in Guildford, in Hong Kong. Today Becky has a wonderful and very odd Fiddler crab for her SquareOdds

The Orchid Tree by Siobhan Daiko #BookReview

The Orchid Tree is a dramatic and moving account of wartime events in Hong Kong and the repercussions in 1949 for the three main characters, Kate, a British teenager, Charles, a young Eurasian and Sofia, whose home is on the neutral island of Macau.   Kate Wolseley tells us of her privileged life living on