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Richard Lloyd Parry

Richard Lloyd Parry

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Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo 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 interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

Books by Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Richard LLoyd Parry uncovers the immediate aftermath and long-term effects of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011, which resulted in the loss of 18,500 souls.

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People Who Eat Darkness

A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman.

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In The Time Of Madness

A brilliant eyewitness account of the violence that erupted in Indonesia at the end of the nineties.

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