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

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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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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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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.

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



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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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Joint-Winner, International Proverse Prize (2009)

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Winner, International Proverse Prize (2010) 



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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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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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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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