During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Artillery. Aged eighteen, he was captured by the Japanese on the island of Java in 1942, and subsequently imprisoned in the notorious Changi jail. Changi became the setting of his first novel, "King ...
I'm not a novelist, but a storyteller. I'm not a literary figure at all.
Libra
Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
(age 72)
Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland