We are pleased to announce the date of our second Book Fair and that published author and ex-RHKP officer Simon Roberts (HK Beat) will be moderating this year. We have four very different, and amazing ex-HK based authors who have kindly accepted our invitation to join our ‘In Conversation with the Authors’ panel event, where they will discuss their current books (see below.) There will also be ample time for questions and audience participation is encouraged!
Venue: St Anne’s Church, Soho, London
Cost: £15 per person HKS members / £25 non-members.
Optional extras:
Chinese wine-tasting at £7
Supper at a nearby Chinese restaurant in Soho (est. £30-35)
Timings:
17:30: Book Sales and Signings with authors & optional wine-tasting
18.00: ‘In Conversation with the Authors’
18:45: Q&A and introduction by publisher, Chris Riley, on how to promote your book
19:00: Meet the Authors/Book Sales and Signings
20:00: Chinese dinner nearby
Authors taking part in the ‘In Conversation with the Authors’
Ian Gill: Searching for Billie – a biography of researching his rather adventurous Chinese mother’s past from adoption by an English postmaster to radio broadcaster in wartime Shanghai to a doomed romance in a PoW camp and much more! Click here for more details about the book.
Eric Lockeyear: The Confrontation – a gripping novel set in 1967 Hong Kong a British Special Branch interrogator races to uncover those behind the bombing campaign, known locally as The Confrontation. Click here for more details about the book.
Chris Ruffle: The Barter Trade – a novel set in Beijing in the early 1980s, a very different world from now, by the author of ‘A decent bottle of wine in China’. Chris is a wine expert and owner of Treaty Port Vineyards in Shandong province. He is kindly also supplying some delicious wines for the wine-tasting. Click here for details of his previous book.
Haiyao Zheng: two series of Classical Chinese children’s books – there are too many titles to name here, but all are beautifully translated and written by Haiyao and her husband Francis Gerard with stunning illustrations. Click here for details of her books.
Other Authors at the Book Sales and Signings:
Clinton Leeks: Tales from a Barren Rock. Reminiscences of life in Hong Kong
Robin Masefield: The World Administered By Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Contemporary Irish in East Asia
Philip Nourse: One Life, Two Worlds
After the Q&A we will finish with a fascinating insight into the publishing world and how to see in print that novel we all have within us from publisher and author Chris Riley of Thaumasios Publishing, which focuses on thrillers, romantic intrigue and colonial fiction set in and around Hong Kong.
All of the books listed will be available for purchase and signing on the day or feel free to bring your own copies to be signed. To register to attend, please contact communications@hkas.org.uk.