Radio 3's reporter Angie Man talks to Katty Law, Convenor of Central and Western Concern Group about her favourite book - A Sense of History: Studies in the Social and Urban History of Hong Kong by Carl Smith. She reveals how the book has inspired her ...

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Katty Law's book recommendation

We welcome author, China scholar and commentator, Jeffrey Wasserstrom. He's written numerous books on China including "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know", and the fun and totally accessible "Eight Juxtapositions", which we'll discu...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on China in the 21st Century

Samuel Johnson Prize winner Frank Dikotter just released the final part of his People's Trilogy, which looks at the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China. This third installment "The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–...

Samuel Johnson Prize winner Frank Dikotter

Haresh Sharma, the multi-award-winning Resident Playwright of the Necessary Stage in Singapore and writer of over 100 plays, which have been staged worldwide. Winner of numerous prestigious awards including Singapore Literature Prize, Southeast Asian W...

Haresh Sharma

Sarah Brennan is the Hong Kong-based, Australian-born author and publisher of the best-selling Chinese Calendar Tales as well as the hugely popular Dirty Story series for kids. Both of these are wickedly illustrated by Hong Kong’s much loved award-winn...

Sarah Brennan

Matthew Cooper has written two children's books set in Hong Kong: Black Rain Day – A Hong Kong Adventure and Lost in Hong Kong. Matthew has lived in Hong Kong for over 10 years and in that time he has worked as a medical writer (abandoned as it was a b...

Matthew Cooper on his children's books

Yangsook Choi is a Korean author and illustrator based in New York. She has written and illustrated many books for young readers. Her books have been awarded "Best of the Best" by the Chicago Public Library and many awards. When she is not creating, sh...

Korean author and illustrator Yangsook Choi

Blair Reeve, a New Zealander based in Hong Kong, he has been writing and performing a rhythmic and comical style of performance poetry. His first children's book is Hogart The Hedgehog Turns Nink. He also teaches creative writing to students at Chinese...

Blair Reeve

Bali Rai, the Angus Book Award-winning author of his notable novel (Un)arranged Marriage, which received rave reviews and was shortlisted for nine regional book prizes, winning The Angus, Stockport, North Lanarkshire and Leicester Book awards. The nove...

Award-winning author Bali Rai

Uma Krishnaswami is the author of more than twenty books for children, from picture, through to novels for young readers. Her books have been published in eleven languages and have been awarded for many prizes, including Book Uncle and Me. She teaches ...

Uma Krishnaswami

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 a...

Varian Johnson on creative writing

Brian Falkner began college intending to study computers, but along the way he decided to shift his focus to something more creative. Falkner's debut novel was The Flea Thing, and followed by twelve books in the next ten years, published in fourteen co...

Brian Falkner

We welcome poet and author Elbert Lee and find out about his latest volume of poetry with a natural flavour, "Rain on the Pacific Coast".

Poet Elbert Lee on"Rain on the Pacific Coast"

French author Gerard Breissan joins Phil Whelan to talk about his novel "The Day They Came", a​ ​tale of a young man's experiences and friendship with an extra-terrestrial...in France.

French author Gerard Breissan on The Day They Came

James Tam talks about his latest novel Man's Last Song, which speculates about a Hong Kong in the year 2090.

James Tam on Man's Last Song

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