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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. It comprises two interwoven narratives set in the years 1930-1945. The earlier narrative concerns the love of the English patient (Count Ladislaus de Almásy, a Hungarian explorer of the Libyan deserts) and Katharine Clifton, the wife of another explorer. The later narrative...
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Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...
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This summer, three celebrated English authors came to the Hong Kong Book Fair and joined Sir David Tang in a discussion of the way they work. In the two-hour book sharing session, you can hear their thoughts on literature, their views on the future of publishing, and share the laughter too.
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From West Country cider brewers to Yorkshire tripe dressers, Tom meets the punters and producers at the heart of our food traditions. He samples the very best of real English food: Bury black pudding, home-cured Wiltshire bacon and the planet’s finest cheddar.
But Full English is no paean to an imagined land where yokels sip ale together while chomping on pork...
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In late July, four renowned English writers joined the Hong Kong Book Fair 2011 and talked about their writings in a two-hour session. The theatre was full with a lively audience happy to laugh and applaud when they felt like it. An interesting literary talk! Don't miss it!
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Food writer Tom Parker Bowles said Hong Kong is the "world's greatest food city". He spoke with entrepreneur Sir David Tang in London about food and writing.
To hear more from Tom Parker Bowles, don’t miss his talk with three other authors critic and columnist AA Gill, novelist and publisher Nicholas Coleridge and historian and broadcaster David Starkey at a 22...
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Nigel Collett studied history at St Peter’s College, Oxford and biography at the University of Buckingham. After serving for twenty years in the British Army, he founded the Gurkha International Group. His publications include A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi (1984) and An English-Nepali-English Dictionary (1994). He is the author of The Butcher of...
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Xu Xi is the author of nine books of fiction and essays. Recent titles are Access Thirteen Tales (2011), the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010). She is also an editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English, most recently, The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong, co-edited with Marshall Moore (2014). She is currently...
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A unique opportunity for businesses in South China to reach out to affluent and English-speaking customers in the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and beyond.
The only English guide book for the Pearl River Delta region of China. Publication Date: September 2013.
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Stuart Christie recommends three of his favourite books, i.e. Passage to India by E.M. Foster, English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood to us and tells how books have changed his life.
