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'''Cecil Champain Lowis''' wrote more than a dozen novels , most of which were set, or at least partially set, in Burma.
Cecil Champain Lowis was born in Bengal 30 June 1866 the son of Susan Mary (Curry) and Edward Elliott Lowis and educated at Newton College, Devon, at Göttingen Gymnasium, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He married Sarah Josselyn Man on 11 September 1894 at St. Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London. He died c 9 October 1948 (dates seen vary) at Godalming, Surrey.
[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21835585/1642134 "Cecil Lowis"] ''The Brisbane Courier'' (Qld) 21 May 1927 trove.nla.gov.au.</ref>
* The Penal Settlement (1928)
* The Huntress (1929) . "A capital story of Burma, written out of sound knowledge of the country. The hero is a young Englishman in the Government service whose duties take him to the wild regions beyond Mandalay to watch a political suspect".<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-400122048/view?sectionId=nla.obj-418364109&partId=nla.obj-400263549#page/n25/mode/1up ''The Australian woman's mirror.Vol. 5 No. 42 (10 September 1929)'' Image 26]. Trove National Library of Australia.</ref>
* In The Hag's Hands: An Affair Of The Burmese Delta (1931) ..."is a good story of a young official who contracted an alliance with a girl of the country, and in middle life reaped a bitter harvest. Returning to his original post as Commissioner, he was met by a blackmailing old Burman woman, who very effectively poisoned his life.<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21690496 Books of the Week] Scroll down to "Other Novels".''The Brisbane Courier'' (Qld) 25 Apr 1931. trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
* The Dripping Tamarinds (1933)
