Five must-attend events
— October 11, 2016Festival is finally rebounding, with cheaper tickets, a focus on non-fiction and star names including
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Images of Afghanistan
— October 4, 2016Paula Bronstein has spent years depicting the lives and suffering of ordinary Afghans, with a focus on
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Connectography
— July 1, 2016Parag Khanna, the well-travelled author of new book Connectography, can change the way you see the world,
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Modern slavery
— February 22, 2016With almost 30 years’ experience in the field, Matthew Friedman could easily have written just a catalogue
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Drabble on marriage and personal space
— December 13, 2015The British writer, headline author at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in November 2015, talks to Kate
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The five must-see authors
— October 15, 2015Novelist Margaret Drabble the biggest draw of two-week festival that starts on October 26; Chinese American
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Not THAT Gordon Chang
— September 3, 2016Being mixed up with China sceptic is ‘the bane of my life’, says Gordon H. Chang, recently in Hong
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Repression, psychopaths and the class system
— April 21, 2016Lawrence Osborne writer tells Kate Whitehead how a middle-class boy from Sussex became one of Britain’s
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Little Aunt Crane
— December 28, 2015Little Aunt Crane by Yan Geling Penguin, Random House
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Bookseller Nicky Dunne on “exotic” HK
— November 22, 2015The chairman of Heywood Hill, a London bookstore, tells Kate Whitehead about the snake in the bath at
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Beijing’s Bookworm
— October 5, 2015Ten-year-old Chinese bookstore chain The Bookworm, founded by two expats, has become a go-to-destination
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Australian turns detective to find her HK roots
— June 1, 2018After a lifetime of being asked, ‘Where are you from?’, Alison Choy Flannigan decided to find out;
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The “Brexpat” dilemma in Hong Kong
— June 25, 2016Britain leaving the EU will have a lasting impact for Europe. But what about Hong Kong, a territory with
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Chan Koonchung finds humour in China-Tibet dynamic
— May 25, 2014Chan Koonchung satire shows how inequalities of power warp the China-Tibet relationship
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The People and the Light in the Arctic
— June 1, 2018In one of the coldest regions in the world, the Sami have survived harsh elements of nature and even
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Boris Johnson’s youngest brother Max on Hong Kong, Covid frustrations, and a special trip with dad
— April 14, 2024Max Johnson, 21 years younger than his half-brother, the former British prime minister, speaks Russian,
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Allman Brown on Spotify gold and his ‘privileged’ childhood
— March 24, 2019The musical artist found fame after his songs appeared on television shows and streaming services End