13 September 2010

September book giveaway: Wordjazz for Stevie

2016-11-24T01:14:30+08:00September 13th, 2010|book giveaway, hong kong, new books|5 Comments

A letter from the heart, written by a father to his profoundly handicapped daughter You think you’ve got life sorted and then a child like Stevie comes along. But don’t think of Stevie as a tragedy. Don’t think of Stevie as a problem. Stevie was just a little girl. A gift to the world. A lot of bad things happened [...]

12 April 2010

Book giveaway — Dim Sum: a survival guide

2022-11-07T00:25:09+08:00April 12th, 2010|book giveaway, hong kong, new books|10 Comments

Why limit yourself to the English menu when ordering dim sum? Cantonese teacher Liza Chu has a part-time career as a Hong Kong dim sum guide, and she has distilled her knowledge of Chinese cuisine and dining etiquette into a practical guidebook to eating out. Each photographed dish is identified with Chinese characters and pronunciation, and icons alert those with [...]

10 April 2010

Crossing Salisbury

2016-11-24T01:14:34+08:00April 10th, 2010|hiking, hong kong|10 Comments

As someone who makes a living partly from writing guidebooks, I was a natural choice to show a friend of a friend around on their brief stopover in Hong Kong recently. She was only in town for a few hours, so I met her at her hotel on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront and planned to take her on a [...]

28 March 2010

Wang Jingwei: traitor or hero?

2022-11-07T00:25:59+08:00March 28th, 2010|book excerpt, china, hong kong, media attention|5 Comments

There’s an interesting article in today’s Sunday Morning Post about Wang Jingwei, the wartime Chinese leader who collaborated with the Japanese to set up a puppet government in Nanjing, and who has been reviled by Chinese ever since as a traitor. Indeed, his very name carries the same derogatory associations as ‘Quisling’ in the West. It seems that Wang’s calligraphy [...]

1 March 2010

Breaking news: local author outsells Malcolm Gladwell

2019-07-12T02:28:44+08:00March 1st, 2010|authors, hiking, hong kong, media attention|2 Comments

In related developments, Hong Kong residents are taking to the hills in record numbers -- at least, if sales of this guidebook are anything to go by. Other Asian cities don't have such spectacular mountains and beaches so close at hand, so we're lucky to have such a wonderful natural resource. Check out some of the photos in this book [...]

6 February 2010

The Serious Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong: back in print

2019-07-12T02:18:48+08:00February 6th, 2010|hiking, hong kong, new books|9 Comments

High ridges, sparkling waterfalls, lush feng shui woods and ancient fishing communities nestled in rocky harbours. Your mind refreshed, your limbs exercised, and your senses intoxicated, you wonder at the fact that only a few miles separate all this from one of the world’s most crowded cities. The Serious Hiker's Guide to Hong Kong -- the bestselling guidebook to the [...]

21 December 2009

Diamond Hill reviewed

2017-10-05T20:03:29+08:00December 21st, 2009|book excerpt, hong kong, media attention|0 Comments

Feng Chi-shun's Kowloon memoir Diamond Hill has been in the shops for a few weeks and has gained good reviews in the South China Morning Post, Time Out Hong Kong, Cairns Media Magazine and now The Correspondent, whose reviewer writes "The book finishes only to leave the reader wanting more -- it's a good read." Click on the following link [...]

30 November 2009

Mike Rowse appears at bookshops in December

2016-11-24T01:14:41+08:00November 30th, 2009|authors, events, hong kong|0 Comments

If you were unable to attend the FCC launch of Mike Rowse's tell-all book No Minister, have no fear -- the former civil servant will be signing copies at two Hong Kong bookstores in early December. Mike will first be at Dymocks in Prince's Building, Central, at 1:00 pm on Thursday 3rd; and he follows this up with an appearance [...]

30 October 2009

No Minister & No, Minister: Mike Rowse tells his side of the story

2022-07-22T23:57:50+08:00October 30th, 2009|events, hong kong, media attention, new books|0 Comments

A new book out next week lifts the lid on a still-simmering political hot potato: In the depths of the 2003 SARS crisis, Mike Rowse (盧維思), a career Hong Kong civil servant, was handed the poisoned chalice of HarbourFest – intended to be (and which in many ways was) a psychological and commercial shot in the arm. Politics, as it [...]