Around Town

Grace, an inquisitive heroine, is born into a “special” kind of Christian family (read: cult). “And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins.” ...

Su Tong’s most recent novel, Boat to Redemption, translated by Howard Goldblatt, won the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. Su is a prolific and provocative author whose works have earned him a place at ...

Peter Hessler first arrived in China as a volunteer teacher with the Peace Corps, which sent him to Fuling, a small city on the Yangtze. Eventually he spent more than a decade in the country, detailing ...

In May 2007, two helicopter pilots, Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill, set a new world record, becoming the first pilots to fly around the world via the South and North Poles. Join as she presents a stunning ...

It is a universal truth that publishers hate short stories. It has nothing to do with literature and everything to do with sales figures. Louis de Bernières’s collection is an exception. After the globe-trotting ...

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, South East Asia and the Pacific region, Mo Zhi Hong’s The Year of the Shanghai Shark is a quirky coming-of-age novel full of eccentric ...

Underground Front is a pioneering work, filled with examples of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since its creation in 1921. Now CEO of the non-profit public policy think ...

As Oliver Twist famously begged, “Please, Sir, I want some more.” Come bemoan the end of the 2010 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival with staff, directors, volunteers, Friends of the Festival, ...

Sophie Paine moved from her native France to sunny Italy, snowy Minnesota and the monsoons of Hong Kong, and married an Englishman. She left accounting and financial reports behind, taught English to Somalian ...

Dr Raynor Shaw and Chief Superintendent Blake Hancock of the Hong Kong Police lead a long-awaited trip within the generally inaccessible, but extremely fascinating, Frontier Closed Area (FCA) of Hong Kong. ...