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Prominent historian and author David Starkey will be taking part in the Book Fair. Prior to his arrival, Sir David Tang asked him about his thoughts on the royal wedding.
It's his first time to visit Hong Kong and China; don't miss his appearance in a 22 July forum with three other authors, "How and What and Why do Writers Write?" during the HKTDC Hong Kong Book...
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The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his...
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Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka. His first book, Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories reflecting the ethnic and political tensions that have threatened Sri Lanka since independence in 1948, was published in 1992. Reef (1994), his first novel, won a Yorkshire Post Book Award (Best First Work) and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize for...
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Guo Xiaolu is a highly controversial novelist and filmmaker who lives in England. She specializes in a unique genre called film essays. I asked her what she meant by that.
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Ahead of the Hong Kong Book Fair 2012 , English author Justin Hill, joins Phil on Morning Brew to talk about his books. Justin's novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times.
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Sarah Passmore is joined by Justin Hill to talk about his latest work Shieldwall and explain why he likes history.
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Sarah Passmore is joined by Professor Robert Bickers to talk about his new book, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914.
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In her old age, Nell Golightly receives a strange letter. A Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask her to describe him. And to explain why all of England remembered him. Turning her mind to the summer of 1909, Nell relives her first encounter with the young poet. She was sixteen, the new housemaid at the Orchard Tea Rooms...
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From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. With a new chapter on Royal Weddings - this is essential reading for those who want to understand more about how monarchy has shaped the British nation.
The monarchy is one of Britain’s most venerable and revered...
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.
Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of...
