Over the last few years my husband and I have produced a couple of books - one on the garden of our house for many years in Kuala Lumpur, Two Five Nine , where we combined the paintings of one of the great Victorian lady traveling artists, Marianne North, who traversed the globe painting flowers - and just happened to have painted almost all the plants in our garden. Kew very kindly allowed us to reproduce some of her paintings, which were accompanied by woodcuts by our daughter, Carola Colley, and some little end of chapter drawings which I did.
Later we traversed the plantations of Peninsular Malaya looking at the bungalows of the estate managers built before 1940, some of which are absolutely magnificent houses, and tracked down the few planters who had lived in them - or sometimes, lived in during their childhoods. This became the book The Planter's Bungalow, A Journey down Peninsular Malaysia.

Finally - one of the reasons I stopped creating sculpture during the years 1998 - 2010, was meeting the woodcarvers of the east coast of Malaysia and in particular Norhaiza Noordin, and his teacher and master, Nik Rashiddin Nik Hussein. Nik Rashiddin was most unusual in that quite apart from being an incredibly talented carver, he wanted to know the Why of the shapes and motifs used in the very complex and beautiful carvings of Kelantan, ad Treganngu in Malaysia and Patani in Thailand. We produced a book Spirit of Wood, which accompanied an exhibition that we brought first to Singapore to the Asian Civilisations Museum, and then onto the Brunei Gallery, where the inmates of the School of Oriental and African Studies led by Dr Elizabeth Moore, make Nik Din's researches the centre of their studies that year.