In a previous life Peter Carey was probably a forger. What else could explain the interest in falsification that pops up repeatedly in his novels? The titles of his most recent three ...

Here's your complete guide to the Man Hong Kong Literary Festival. Complete festival listings. ...

German photographer Michael Wolf has spent 14 years documenting our city from near and from far. He tells Steve Cheng how his new book project opened unexpected doors. In his 14 years ...

-Novelist John Lanchester tells Peter Watts the way to examine the credit crunch and why he doesn't talk about fish. There are many quotable lines in Whoops!, John Lanchester's ...

Sarah Fuller, author of Hong Kong's first travel guide for wheelchair users, tells Steve Cheng where wheels can carry you. How did this project come about? The book's been an ...

The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis

Posted: 18 Jan 2010

Edward Hollis's The Secret Lives of Buildings might easily be mistaken for an ordinary book on the history of architecture: a conventional grand tour from Gloucester Cathedral to ...

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Posted: 18 Jan 2010

Innocent isn't the word that usually comes to mind when talking about proto-punk goddess Patti Smith and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. But in singer-songwriter ...

Magnus Bartlett is in ruminative mood when I join him for tea in the China Club. He's been up since 4am, having slept briefly and fitfully, after learning the evening before that an old ...

Lit by Mary Karr

Posted: 5 Jan 2010

With Lit, Mary Karr winds up a trilogy of memoirs that includes The Liar's Club and Cherry. In her latest literary confession, which covers her booze-soaked early adulthood and the ...

Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

Posted: 5 Jan 2010

Ever-reluctant to follow the obvious path, let alone stick to a formula, J.M. Coetzee roundly reconfigures his fictionalised memoir cycle in this oblique, intimately rewarding ...