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A North Korean defector and author talks about her autobiography, The Girl with Seven Names,and her life in China.
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Bright and talented, but at odds with her parents, 14-year-old Evelyn Lau ran away to spend the next two years submerged in drugs, prostitution and despair on the streets of Vancouver. The journals she kept provide an account of life on the streets for a young girl.
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Evelyn Lau tells Sarah Passmore about her book.
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Fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of going to college — an unusual aspiration for a girl living in British occupied India during World War II. Then tragedy strikes, and Vidya and her brother are forced to move into a traditional household with their extended family, where women are meant to be married, not educated. Breaking the rules, Vidya finds refuge in her...
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Padma Venkatraman is one of the authors of the Young Reader's Festival. From studying oceanography to being a director, to teaching maths and science and now finally her dream job of being an author. Let's hear her journey of her becoming a writer.
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Award nominated author, Dianne Wolfer talks about her books for teenagers and young readers and the first Young Readers Festival in Hong Kong.
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Born and raised in Singapore, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York–based journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, and edited the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, InStyle magazine, and the Baltimore Sun.
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan joins us to discuss her sexy new novel Sarong Party...
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Fay lives alone with her father on bleak, windswept Breaksea Island, but her isolated life takes a dramatic turn with the outbreak of World War I.
Fay collects the messages of lonely soldiers heading to the front line. She is their last hope of getting messages telegraphed back home. After their departure for the battlefields of Egypt and Gallipoli, she follows...
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A young Geordie copper Harry escapes war-ravaged post-war Britain in search of new opportunities and adventure. He gets lucky, is recruited by Hong Kong Police Force, and enjoys the trappings of an expatriate lifestyle. In the hot and sweaty, smoked-filled bars of Tsim Sha Tsui, he meets an attractive and vivacious Chinese dancing girl called Vicky, who escapes...
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“My father bought me from the council for 365 francs,” recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni’s novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons.
She’s a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves into her new home with her new family, she recounts her days in the orphanage and how starkly different her...
