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We'll find out about a brand new novel from writer Christopher New. It's called "Gage Street Courtesan" and is a terrific 19th century story of love and destiny set in Hong Kong.
Catergories: Book
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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This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best known avenues. A definitive index to the street names of Shanghai, some of which have disappeared or been removed, allows historians, researchers, tourists and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre-1949 incarnation, through the former...
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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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Salina Yoon is the author and illustrator of over 160 books for children. She is the recipient of the 2015 SCIBA Award and the 2015 Nottingham Children’s Book Award for Found; the 2014 New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award, and the Lori Bresnahan Award for Penguin and Pinecone; the Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year list for Penguin on...
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RTHK Presents: A Literary Lunch with Alexander McCall Smith
Date: Monday, 15 March 2010
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Place: The Helena May, 35 Garden Rd
In Botswana, meet Precious Ramotswe and friends; in Edinburgh, be introduced to amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie; hear the latest hanes from 44 Scotland Street; and at the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg...
Catergories: Book
Once upon a time in a very busy city, on a very busy street, in two very small apartments, lived...
Herman and Rosie.
Herman liked playing the oboe, the smell of hot dogs in the winter, and watching films about the ocean.
Rosie liked pancakes, listening to old jazz records, and watching films about the ocean.
They both loved the groovy rhythm of the city,...
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Nine-year-old Yasmin intends to read a book a day for the rest of her life. Book Uncle, who runs a free lending library on the street corner, always has the perfect book for her, but when Book Uncle seems to be in trouble, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. With the elections coming up and the grown-ups busy with their own affairs, what...
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Franziska Goldmann, an opera singer fallen on hard times, has become the star courtesan in 19th century Hong Kong. A chance encounter with Queen Victoria’s musical second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity to resume her career as a singer. But, it is the other unpredictable characters in her life, including her German anarchist lover and a devious...
