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On Location for The Pearl of Penang

Writer's picture: Stuart Grant Stuart Grant

Here's  a brief extract from the book:

A significant location in the book is a Taoist Chinese temple in George Town. I made this up as the only temple I visited in George Town was dominated by a giant reclining Buddha added in the 1970s. So I used an amalgam of temples I'd visited in Saigon and Hong Kong.

Here's another short extract -

The images I took of the straits between Penang island and the mainland are not great as the weather was cloudy and then rainy in the morning when I took the shots. Much better to rely on other people's images taken with the brilliant sunlight shimmering over the water. I did go into the internal part of the island - which is hilly and where my character Doug owned a small rubber estate. There's not much evidence of rubber these  days as it appears more of the area has been changed to the growing of fruits and spices.

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