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Jan Latta, an adventurous wildlife photographer and author of 'The True to Life' book series tells us about why it is important to educate children about endangered species and about the HK Young Readers Festival she participated in.
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Reenita Malhotra Hora is a Hong Kong-based writer, broadcast journalist and Ayurveda clinician. She also produces and presents a variety of programmes. She has also worked as a story developer for Cartoon Network Asia and Disney. Her debut young adult novel is Operation Mom – How to Get Your Mom a Life and a Man and her children’s novel Goopeater will soon be...
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What would you do if you were to live up to 100 years? Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean of Programmes of London Business School and the author of The 100-year life: Living and working in an age of longevity mulls over this topic with us.
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Junot Díaz is the author of two bestselling books: Drown, a short story collection published in 1996, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He talks to Phil Whelan about his work and the art of teaching.
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Author Chris Thrall has led an interesting life in Hong Kong and he chronicles his adventures in "Eating Smoke", which is about his life with the Triads.
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Journalist and author Mark O'Neill has lived and worked in Asia for many years and he joins Phil to talk about his fascinating new book; "Frederick: The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria".
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Dame Margaret Drabble wrote the fourteen stories that comprise this superb collection of short stories over a forty-year period. In each of them, Dame Margaret examines the private lives and passions of everyday people. Angie Man ventured to speak to Dame Margaret Drabble’s talk on her book “A day in the life of a Smiling Women”
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Donald Tsang, our Chief Executive was interviewed by TDC to talk about his reading life ahead of the HK Book fairs held in 22-28 July.
Mr Tsang said he loves reading as it stimulates his mind and emotions, and finds burying his head in a good book a great way to lose himself.
Recently he has been reading Wu Xiaobo's The Great Failure (大敗局),...
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Varian Johnson was born and raised in Florence, South Carolina, and attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received a BS in Civil Engineering. He later attended the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. He is the multiple best children’s book award-winning US author, including My Life as a Rhombus....
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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...
