Simon Holder

Simon Holder has spent most of his life in broadcast TV. He worked at London Weekend Television for many years on a galaxy of diverse programs, from situation comedy to drama and sport; he also co-wrote several comedy sketches that were performed n shows such as The Two Ronnies and That's Life. He subsequently moved to BBC West creating documentaries and then worked freelance at Sky TV, Channel 4, Central, Anglia, and the BBC in London. He had a stint at a TV company in Beijing, where much of the background material to this novel was culled. He now lives in Wiltshire with his Chinese wife, Xiaomei, who helped greatly with the intricacies of Chinese culture for this novel.