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  • Article 109 by Peter Gregoire

    

    Joint-Winner of the International Proverse Prize 2012

    Set in Beijing and Hong Kong, ARTICLE 109 is a high-octane, page-turning thriller. A young solicitor, investigating the suicide of his former colleague, unravels a conspiracy to cause chaos on the financial markets by instigating the downfall of one of Asia's richest tycoons. ARTICLE 109, Joint-Winner of the Proverse Prize 2011, lifts the lid onHong Kong's fragile status as an international financial centre and the role it plays inChina's unrelenting march towards becoming the most powerful global economic superpower.

     Born in the United Kingdom, PETER GREGOIRE moved toHong Kong in May 2003. Currently the head of the legal department for theHong Kong subsidiary of one of the world's largest general insurance groups, Peter has also worked for the regulatory authorities inHong Kong and as a private practice commercial litigation lawyer in the City ofLondon. During his career, Peter has been responsible for implementing anti-money-laundering and anti-fraud compliance systems, dealing with ICAC investigations and litigating complex financial frauds through both the English andHong Kong courts.

         Peter has been writing fiction since 2006 and his stories have been published in a wide range of anthologies. His short story 'Dispute Resolution' won the senior category prize in the 2008 Standard/RTHK competition and a consultation with Pan Macmillan.

         ARTICLE 109, a fast-paced financial-crime thriller in which Peter draws on his inside knowledge of working in the financial services industry and his experience of the subtle political and economic relationship between Hong Kong and China, is his first full-length novel and Joint-Winner of the Proverse Prize 2011.

         Peter currently lives with his wife, Isa, his son, Luke and his oversized basset-hound, Dumbo, inHong Kong.

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  • Bao Bao's Odyssey: From Mao's Shanghai to Capitalist Hong Kong by Paul Ting

    

     

    

    A teenage boy in 1950's China observes and seeks to understand the adult world.

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  • cemetery miss you by JASON S POLLEY

    
    
    CEMETERY MISS YOU
    , in the form of transcripts from audio recordings (similar to Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape") recounts the first year or so of a Pakistani illegal's experiences in Hong Kong. The work begins by detailing the boy-man's middle-class experiences inPakistan, before he's all but forced to flee his home after shooting a man in the name of family honour. His life inHong Kong begins as a life of poverty, living on the streets. Less than a year later he's buying rounds of drinks on The Peak, driving around in private cars, spending thousands of dollars on footwear, and making regular short trips to mainlandChina.

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  • The Day They Came by Gerard Louis Breissan

    

    

    A young boy meets an alien, Eudoxus, learns about his people, and is protected by Eudoxus throughout his teenage and young-adult life. With authentic details about Provence, in the South of France and experience as a mercenary in the Congo.

     

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  • The Day They Came by Gerard Louis Breissan (7 copies sent at one time to one address)

    A young boy meets an alien, Eudoxus, learns about his people, and is protected by Eudoxus throughout his teenage and young-adult life. With authentic details about Provence, in the South of France and experience as a mercenary in the Congo.

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  • Death Has A Thousand Doors by Patricia W. Grey


    Mystery novel, set in the small hidden country of Andorra, high up in the Pyrenees. Proverse Prize 2010 Finalist. pbk.

    

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  • Man's Last Song by James Tam

     

    The human race faces imminent extinction. The year is 2090. The global population has shrunk to less than half a million; median age about sixty. After forty years of near-universal sterility, humanity is vanishing while the rest of the planet makes a healthy comeback.

     

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  • Mishpacha -- Family by Rebecca Tomasis

    Joint-Winner, International Proverse Prize (2009)

     

     

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  • A Misted Mirror by Gillian Jones

    Winner, International Proverse Prize (2010) 

    

     

     

     

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  • The Monkey in Me: Confusion, Love and Hope under a Chinese Sky by Caleb Kavon

     

     

     

     

     

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  • A Painted Moment by Jennifer Ching

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    Pbk. 160pp.
    5.83 in. wide by 8.27 in. high.
    Published March 2010

     

    JENNIFER CHING (Jennifer Ching Kwun Wing) was brought up and for the most part schooled in Hong Kong. She spent three years in London at fashion school, followed by a year working for a dotcom company, writing to user communities online. Jennifer spends most of her spare time traveling, sharing a drink with friends, or reading. Her favorite writers include David Mitchell, Aaron Sorkin and Agatha Christie. She lives in Hong Kong and works for a large American broadcast network.

    The sakura have fallen and frost is gaining ground. Yun, Rachel's best friend has died, and she is at a loss. With his passing, she mourns the fabric of their friendship and the eternal warmth of his family. Heading back to the island for the funeral are some of their oldest and closest friends; Chloe, a repressed perfectionist, and Olivia, golden child, both of whom she will grieve with and seek solace in. Along with their consolations, they bring with them their own issues and anger, dredging up buried fissures in their history. The time of their reunion also becomes a time of questioning, as they measure the choices they have made and wonder at the happy ending they each seek. And finally, lost in the folds of the past, Rachel is haunted by memories and confronted by the need to forge her own future. A Painted Moment is a story of friends, forgiveness and the paths we walk in life.

    "In the work of Jennifer Ching, Hong Kong has found a new and welcome voice in fiction. And, as one among the many worlds well-chosen words create, A Painted Moment is a slender, but significant, novel. In it, the sum total of human experience pushes forward a fraction, inclining immeasurably (if perceptibly) towards the light. There is growth, there is being, there will be a tomorrow. I look forward to Ms Ching's next novel unreservedly." -- Stuart Christie, HKADC Examiner
    -- "The main themes of the novel are self-growth and friendship. Ching has painstakingly illustrated the inevitable moment of self-independence pressing upon us in due time." -- Flora Mak, in Cha: An Asian literary Journal, Issue 12, September 2010.

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  • Paranoia (The Walk and Talk with Angela) by Caleb Kavon

    

    A man is called "oblivious" by a girl-friend. He considers the truth of this and realises he has been neglectful of many things. To his surprise, he becomes involved in a North-Korean plot.

     

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  • The Reluctant Terrorist: In the Path of the Jizo by Caleb Kavon

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Revenge from Beyond by Dennis Wong

    

    

    A fascinating story set in Tang Dynasty China. Judge Quan is the magistrate at the centre of a fiercely fought court case involving a widow and the son of an Imperial Advisor. Many unusual historical details. pbk.

     

     

     

     

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  • Tightrope! A Bohemian Tale by Olga Wallo

    

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • The Village in the Mountains by David Diskin

    International Proverse Prize Joint-Winner 2012

    "The Village in the Mountains" is set in a fictional, southern European country. After a brief period of democratic reform, the nation has once again become a totalitarian state. The narrator of the book --  a left-wing poet from a prominent family -- is exiled to a village in the high mountains near the country's border. Against this mountainous backdrop, an intense psychological drama is played out between the poet and the people with whom he comes into contact, compelling him to make a decision that will change his life forever.

    DAVID DISKIN was born and brought up in the English Midlands and has spent most of his working life in Asia. He currently lives in Hong Kong where he pursues his interests in writing, natural history and photography.

     

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THE INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE PRIZE for unpublished non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Entered fiction has frequently been succesful:

2009: two works of fiction were joint-winners.

2010: a work of fiction and a semi-autobiographical novel were finalists. The latter became joint-winner.

2011: a legal thriller and a novel were joint-winners.

2012: a semi-autobiographical series of sketches was joint-winner.

2014: a short-story collection was a winner.

2015: a short-story collection was a winner

2016: two novels were winners

2017: the sole winner was a novel.

 

 

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