2024-04-23T21:10:25Z https://crimespace.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=east&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-01-27:537324:Video:225631 2010-01-27T23:51:25.263Z Pan Macmillan Australia https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PanMacmillanAustralia

1975: When bloody war ravages his beloved Portuguese Timor, Cesar da Silva flees with his wife and children from a country in flames. But in their desperate bid for freedom, amidst the chaos and devastation, Cesar's young family becomes separated. Believing his wife and two daughters dead, Cesar finds passage to the Portugal of his heritage and later to Australia.<br></br> <br></br> In occupied Timor, Cesar's wife is alive, but her troubles are far from over. Hunted by a sadistic warlord and with no…

1975: When bloody war ravages his beloved Portuguese Timor, Cesar da Silva flees with his wife and children from a country in flames. But in their desperate bid for freedom, amidst the chaos and devastation, Cesar's young family becomes separated. Believing his wife and two daughters dead, Cesar finds passage to the Portugal of his heritage and later to Australia.<br /> <br /> In occupied Timor, Cesar's wife is alive, but her troubles are far from over. Hunted by a sadistic warlord and with no way to get a message to the outside world, she despairs she will never see her husband again...<br /> <br /> 1997: More than twenty years later, a young Australian journalist and her photographer are drawn to the killing fields of Timor and discover the terrible suffering of the Timorese people at the hands of a brutal foreign invader. They are compelled to expose the truth to the world, but in their quest for justice, they become entangled in the da Silva family tragedy, placing them all in the gravest of danger...<br /> <br /> Powerful, moving and enthralling, The Devil's Tears announces the arrival of a bold new voice in Australian fiction.<br /> <br /> "A captivating story of bravery and honour in a time of war, The Devil's Tears will grip you from the first page to the last." (Peter Watt) tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-03-22:537324:Video:189048 2009-03-22T09:04:16.974Z Matt Rees https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MattRees

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/my-book-shtick-in-full"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504746?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>At the Jerusalem Book Week, I gave a talk about how I came to write my Palestinian crime series. With the discussion afterward, it ends up being over an hour long, including some talk about crime novels, the Middle East, politics and my personal…

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/my-book-shtick-in-full"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504746?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />At the Jerusalem Book Week, I gave a talk about how I came to write my Palestinian crime series. With the discussion afterward, it ends up being over an hour long, including some talk about crime novels, the Middle East, politics and my personal history. tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-02-10:537324:Video:181176 2009-02-10T15:14:05.068Z Matt Rees https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MattRees

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/welcome-to-palestine"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="90" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504718?profile=original&amp;width=112&amp;height=90" width="112"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Crime novelist Matt Beynon Rees, whose work has been compared to Graham Greene and John Le Carre, welcomes you to Palestine with an atmospheric, dramatic tour of the scene of his mystery novels about Palestinian detective Omar Yussef. His books take readers from Bethlehem, to Gaza, to Nablus and the rest of the West Bank and Arab world. Here Rees gives you a flavor of that dangerous region…

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/welcome-to-palestine"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504718?profile=original&amp;width=112&amp;height=90" width="112" height="90" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Crime novelist Matt Beynon Rees, whose work has been compared to Graham Greene and John Le Carre, welcomes you to Palestine with an atmospheric, dramatic tour of the scene of his mystery novels about Palestinian detective Omar Yussef. His books take readers from Bethlehem, to Gaza, to Nablus and the rest of the West Bank and Arab world. Here Rees gives you a flavor of that dangerous region in the style of the classic detective noir of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett that inspired him. tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-02-10:537324:Video:181171 2009-02-10T15:10:30.653Z Matt Rees https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MattRees

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/the-samaritans-secret"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="90" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504714?profile=original&amp;width=120&amp;height=90" width="120"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Crime novelist Matt Beynon Rees explores the hidden world of the Samaritans, descendants of Jesus's "Good Samaritan," in their hilltop village overlooking the violent Palestinian town of Nablus. Rees introduces his third Palestinian detective novel "The Samaritan's Secret," which takes place in the Samaritan village and in the murky alleys of the ancient Nablus casbah. Rees shows some of…

<a href="https://crimespace.ning.com/video/the-samaritans-secret"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57504714?profile=original&amp;width=120&amp;height=90" width="120" height="90" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Crime novelist Matt Beynon Rees explores the hidden world of the Samaritans, descendants of Jesus's "Good Samaritan," in their hilltop village overlooking the violent Palestinian town of Nablus. Rees introduces his third Palestinian detective novel "The Samaritan's Secret," which takes place in the Samaritan village and in the murky alleys of the ancient Nablus casbah. Rees shows some of the locations from the novel in this video.