Books by Brian Mcelney

In the year BC 35, it is recorded that 145 Roman soldiers settled in northwestern China. How did they get there? This novel creates a narrative starting thirty years before, following the fortunes and misfortunes of one of those soldiers, Marcus, as he fights with Julius Caesar in Gaul and with Marcus Licinius Crassus against the Parthians.

Brian McElney's memoir starts at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s, when it was just not known whether the Red Guards would storm over the border to Hong Kong, and then tells tales ranging from the Hong Kong of the 1930s to the establishment of what is today the only museum specialising in Chinese antiquities in the UK.