Su Yen is a Taiwanese designer who studied historic building conservation at Oxford Brookes University. Her book, Dear Su Yen, written with English tutor Roy Preece, of Little Tew, describes her discovery of England through its poetry, painting and architecture, woven into an account of her past life in Taiwan. The book, £9.99, is available at Jaffe and Neale in Chipping Norton and at Blackwell’s University Bookshop at Oxford Brookes.