2 01, 2017

Celebrating! Essential Audiobooks has recorded an audiobook version of Brushstokes in Time. Listen to a 3 minute clip from this fabulous production and read about Caroline Huang McLaughlin’s emotional response to my novel.

By |January 2nd, 2017|Categories: China, Art & History|0 Comments

For reviews, endorsements and blogs  go to my blog Reactions to Brushstrokes in Time but  Brushstrokes in Time is getting  particularly emotional reactions from young people of Chinese ancestry living in the West. Caroline Mc Laughlin who has recorded the book identifies

3 12, 2016

Brushstrokes in Time Events (end 2016)

By |December 3rd, 2016|Categories: Events|0 Comments

The London Launch  of Essential Audio Books : Senate House the University of London  on Thursday 17  at 6.30. On Wednesday  16  Katie Isbester and Catherine O'Brien the founders of Claret Press and Essential Audiobooks were in Oxford  appearing on local TV. oxford-press-release  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RYEXL9960&list=PLA7BT6X6QX-wVpAnedPnm9wpYMR76yJk4 

20 09, 2016

Some Reactions to Brushstrokes in Time

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A stunning eye- opening fictional tale set in China from 1963-1993; WILD SWANS MEETS DR ZHIVAGO, In September 1979  some young Chinese artists who had abandoned socialist realism were bravely exploring self-expression. They  tried to find a venue to display

14 05, 2016

My Weekly Blog on Claret Press

By |May 14th, 2016|Categories: China, Art & History|0 Comments

http://www.claretpress.com/#!Sylvia-Vetta-talks-of-Ai-Weiwei/c16ee/573894390cf2b662e5bc30d4 I wrote this after Alison Layman’s film of Ai Weiwei titled ‘Never Sorry’ at the Phoenix Picture House (Walton Street) on Wednesday at 6pm for Arts Week Forum . His career as an artist began with the Stars Art