Following a career in the world of patent law, spent largely in Hong Kong, Graeme abandoned the legal profession to pursue a long-held ambition to be a writer.

Short-listed in the 2014 Black Pear Press Short Story Competition, and runner-up in the 2016 competition, Graeme’s writing is included in the Black Pear Press anthologies “Seaglass” and “On the Day of the Dead” (Black Pear Press). His writing has also been published online by Litro Magazine (Litro Online), Flash Fiction Magazine (Flash Fiction Magazine) and others.

Fascinated by the history of the former Portuguese colony of Macau – a result of many weekends spent there in search of the best chourico and Portuguese wine – Graeme embarked on a series of short stories set in that city. The story “And All Will Be Well” won the short story competition of the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2018, and in the same year “The Jade Monkey Laughs” won the English language section of the Macau Literary Festival competition, and both stories were included in the collection “The Goddess of Macau” published by Fly on the Wall press in 2020.

The year 2020 also saw the publication of Graeme’s first novel On Borrowed Time, a mixture of mystery, romance and espionage set in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the years 1996 and 1997. Currently he is writing his second novel in which he returns to the subject of Macau and explores the years immediately following the end of the Second World War.

Graeme divides his time between Calderdale in the UK, and Nice in France, and would love to hear from you either by the Contact page or by e-mail at contact@graemehall.net