Richly evocative, A Different Sky paints a scintillating panorama of thirty tumultuous years in Singapore's history through the passions and struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget.

Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they? Peter van Pels and his family are locked away with the Franks too, and Peter sees it all differently.
What is it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, to hate her and then find yourself falling in love with her? To know you're being written about in her diary, day after day? What's it like to sit and wait and watch whilst others die, and you wish you were fighting?
Anne's diary ends on August 4 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion, the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and the terrible conclusion.

Taking this searing moment as its springboard, Butterfly's Shadow sends its characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original.
At the centre of it all is the child, Joey, carried away by his father and new step-mother to a brighter future in America. But it's not that simple. Each is haunted in different ways by memories of what really happened that day - Joey thinks he heard screaming, his father can't seem to find peace, his step-mother has stumbled into a deceit that will destroy her happiness.
But soon, they are caught in the shifting perspectives of a dramatic era - the Depression, Pearl Harbor, the horrors of war and, finally, the moment that time stopped in Nagasaki.
When the deadly dust of the A-bomb has settled, Joey finds his way back to the ... more