In the Green Heart

Richard Lloyd Parry’s gripping fiction debut is a parable and a cracking good yarn, an intelligent adventure told with the precise and horrified eye of a news correspondent. Immersive and immensely readable, never not terrifying – Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men
In the Green Heart is a brilliant, harrowing and heartbreaking, yet utterly compelling and profoundly moral novel which speaks to us all in our age of conflicts and wars, and which stands shoulder to shoulder with Waiting for the Barbarians and The Constant Gardener, and confirms Richard Lloyd Parry as one of the great writers of our times – David Peace
Richard Lloyd Parry has been one of the most exciting non-fiction writers of the past decade or so. Now he’s taken his incredible skills to fiction and it’s explosive - utterly compelling, disturbing, and thrilling. If Graham Greene reincarnated like Dr Who, this is what he would have written. – Johann Hari
In the Green Heart is…intensely political, designed to lay bare the fictions of a contemporary colonialism yet inseparable from the closeup portrait of a man attempting to both shelter in and break out of an internal psychic trap * Guardian *
[Parry’s] first work of fiction…is very much the product of a glittering career… In Kit, Richard Lloyd Parry has created a hero for our time * Times Literary Supplement *

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. Born in 1969, he was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and has lived in Tokyo since 1995 as a foreign correspondent, first for The Independent and now for The Times.

He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine.

He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that erupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness - The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

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