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"This is impersonal poetry. Nothing here is about me." Using the established poetic forms of the villanelle and the sonnet, "Snowblind from my Protective Colouring" gives us dialogues from many characters, some imagined some real, as they confront and express their lives and relationships. From the un-named She and He of 'Everything in Life is Contagious' who address with romantic imagination or...

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has so long been unjustly libelled with sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her sixteenth birthday. The Lady Melicia has never denied that she played a part in this unhappy affair but, in her defence, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies?

The retelling of a classic fairy tale is set to a...

the moon looks down at its reflection in the water below: surrounded by cliffs, and framed in points of light. moments of realisation are connected through sea and sky. miss moon's class is a dialogue with a constantly shifting Other, moving through cornwall, wales, hong kong and australia but always located in myth and in memory.

viki holmes was born in st. austell, cornwall, in 1975 and...

Larry Feign is well-known to every Hongkonger as the creative genius behind the Lily Wong comic strip and books. The eagerly-awaited 'Hongkongitis' is Larry's first new book in several years

Hongkongitis is ... an incurable affliction that causes one to secretly love Hong Kong while complaining loudly about it.

While everyone else in Hong Kong was out doing real jobs, writer and cartoonist...

Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and...

Sir Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, Chairman of Hopewell Holdings, can be said to personify the driving ambition behind East Asia's rapid economic rise in the latter part of the 20th century and its dramatic collapse in 1997.

Today, Wu is one of Asia's best-known entrepreneurs and this book traces the birth of a family dynasty. Beginning with the creation of the famous Hong Kong taxi service by Wu�s...

An Indian-Malay boy tackles difficult words for his spelling bee while swimming; Sea Gypsy girls venture to the big city with their artist cousin; a Japanese-American waltzes in her family's temple; an Arab grieves for his lost Russian wife... In these stories which span Asia from Japan and Hong Kong to Malaysia and Yemen, Wes Stevens brings an enigmatic, evocative ... and laconic new voice to...

From the turbulent sixities through the nineties here is a history of Hong Kong told through fiction by one of Hong Kong's top writers.2nd edition includes a critical reading guide for English Teachers and students by Lingnan University's Mike Ingham.

A collection of short stories and essays explores what it means to be an overseas Chinese.

In January 1972, I, Rose Kho, Went to college in the United States. By May of'74, I came home with my BS in political science and a minor in mathematics. I married my childhood sweetheart Paul Lie in the summer of'77. Gordie says it was those early American years that really changed my life.

Set against the Asian and international airline world, Hong Kong Rose rewinds through a...

Chinese Walls takes readers along invisible walls between members of a Indonesian-Chinese family. Daughters of Hui is a novella of contemporary Asian women.

Welcome to Bangkok. Half Miami, half Beirut, and all Blade Runner country after midnight.

In LAUNDRY MAN Jake Needham takes you behind Thailand's smiling face and introduces a hero you have to cheer for, the urbane and straight-shooting Jack Shepherd. Once a high-flying international lawyer, a renowned expert on global money laundering, Jack has happily swapped the fierce intrigue of...

A skeptical young woman joins a feng shui consultancy - but finds her boss Mr. Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: scenes of crime. Then the local Union of Industrial Mystics discovers a runaway teenager destined for death, and the assignments fo from weird to bizarre.

Original, fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny, The Feng Shui Detective series turns the crime genre on its...

Hong Kong stories written and published over the last thirty years, this book has been long in the making.

Nury Vittachi's latest novel is a detective story with a twist, for the sleuth is neither a police officer, nor a down-at-heel PI, nor even a mediaeval monk -- CF Wong is a geomancer, an expert in the Asian discipline of Feng Shui.