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Crown and Country: The Kings and Queens of England: A History audio
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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Crown and Country: The Kings and Queens of England: A History
Crown and Country: The Kings and Queens of England: A History audio
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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In The City Of Dragons audio
Author Mike Smith talks with Phil Whelan about his brand new book, "In The City Of Dragons". It's the second in his planned trilogy of cheeky, nostalgic, barely legal...TRUE stories of times gone by in Hong Kong. Former Royal Hong Kong Policeman, and entrepreneur, Mike will tell us how he...got away with it.
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When Harry Met Vicky—A Fatal Attraction Growing Up with My Parents audio
Author Peter Craggs speaks to Phil Whelan about his book, "When Harry Met Vicky—A Fatal Attraction Growing Up with My Parents". It's a fascinating memoir of his father, a well-known Police inspector in the then Royal HK Police Force, who starts a new life in the colonial days of Hong Kong and meets, and falls in love with a mainland Chinese dancing girl...Peter's...
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The Emperor Waltz audio
Philip Hensher is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including The Mulberry Empire, the 2008 Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of The Badgers and winner of The Royal Society Of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 2013 Scenes From Early Life. Philip is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Noreen Mir and Hugh...
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Geoff Dyer audio
Award-winning British writer Geoff Dyer, one of the authors at this year's Hong Kong International Literary Festival, joins us to talk about his work. Geoff Dyer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The author of four novels and nine works of non-fiction, Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham...
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Blair gives profits from book to charity
The former British prime minister, Tony Blair, is to donate the profits from his memoirs to a sports centre for injured soldiers. A spokesman said Mr Blair would hand over the reported four million pounds advance payment plus all royalties to honour "their courage and sacrifice". The Royal British Legion will receive the money after the book, A Journey, is...
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The Painter of Lost Souls
The Painter of Lost Souls audio
The Painter of Lost Souls is the story of Sito, a gifted artist who leaves his home in a poor village in Central Java while still in his teens, to make his name and his fortune in the royal city of Jogjakarta. There he falls in with an idealistic group of avant-garde artists that calls itself the Republic of Dreams, reflecting the extravagant hopes of millennial...
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Eating Smoke
Eating Smoke audio
Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find his fortune in Hong Kong, but instead found himself homeless and hooked on crystal meth. Soon he began working for the 14K, Hong Kong’s largest crime family, as a doorman in one of their nightclubs in the Wan Chai red-light district. Dealing with violence, psychosis and the ‘foreign triad’ – a secretive...
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Sarong Party Girls
Sarong Party Girls audio
A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have...
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