fbook icon 60   REVIEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND


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A big thank you to all those Kiwi readers who've emailed me with kind words about MR CHEN'S EMPORIUM. I've really appreciated your wonderful feedback.

Like California and Australia, New Zealand had its own Gold Rush which produced a rich and fascinating heritage. After gold was discovered in the mid-1860s at the evocatively named Gabriel's Gully, prospectors flocked to the Central Otago area and later to the West Coast of the South Island. 

Here's a fragment from a lovely editorial review of MR CHEN'S EMPORIUM. Coincidentally, it comes from the heart of NZ Gold Rush country:


'Parallel worlds unfold out of the Australian past ... An easy read, ideal to curl up with on holiday or a rainy Sunday afternoon.'

Caroline Hunter in the OTAGO DAILY TIMES, March 9, 2013


Another great review, this time from THE OAMARU MAIL, 4 January, 2013:

'Gripping Aussie saga spans time'