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1. Striking black

   Posted Jun 27th 2010, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... I'm looking for.' A case in point is the flooring of the 1,650 sq ft two-bedroom apartment in Pok Fu Lam she shares with her husband and young son. Before even finding the flat, Edwards ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/718244/striking-black
2. The East, The West, And Sex

   Posted Aug 08th 2010, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... The East, The West, And Sex by Richard Bernstein Vintage, HK$128 Edward Said contended that the Western vision of the East is a highly eroticised one that arose not from reality but the need to find in Orientals the fantasies and cliches that had been embedded in the Western mind. Examples of men who had succumbed to this fallacy, according to Said, included Gustave Flaubert ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/721578/east-west-and-sex
3. Unreliable Sources

   Posted May 30th 2010, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... to Iraq, from the first world war to the Edward VIII abdication crisis, the writer takes aim at reporters who had been lazy or cowards morally and intellectually. But Simpson, a journalist of 40 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/715746/unreliable-sources
4. Six Frames

   Posted Apr 05th 2009, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Charmaine Chan Six Frames by Edward de Bono Vermilion, HK$153 Six Frames should really be a chapter in a book. Dreamed up by Edward de Bono, it will be of interest to fans of his Six Thinking Hats idea, which encourages lateral thinking. His latest technique - which uses the square, triangle, circle, diamond, heart and rectangle - attempts to focus our attention. He says those ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/675850/six-frames
5. Beach Babylon

   Posted Feb 08th 2009, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Edwards-Jones wrote the book with the help of an anonymous manager of the resort. Unfortunately what he told her would surprise few. So we have snooty guests making ludicrous requests (for boats, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/669195/beach-babylon
6. Skye

   Posted Mar 19th 2006, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Different in flavour, partly because of its a cappella style, is Jamaica Days. Soulful, with a tropical scent, it's about Edwards' grandmother, who lives in Kingston and who she met ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/541022/skye
7. The Memory Keeper's Daughter

   Posted Dec 24th 2006, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... and their parents wrench in a way that family tragedies often do. Kim Edwards should be applauded for relying less on emotional manipulation than compassion in telling her tale. Here's predicting ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/576491/memory-keepers-daughter
8. The New Cold War

   Posted Mar 30th 2008, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Charmaine Chan The New Cold War by Edward Lucas Bloomsbury, HK$190 The subtitle to Edward Lucas' alarming book reads: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West. Readers may judge that more appropriate than The New Cold War. After all, during the 'old' cold war Soviet military muscle and the nuclear arms race were the result of its rivalry with the US. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/631841/new-cold-war
9. Portrait of an Unknown Woman

   Posted Jul 15th 2007, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... delves into the mystery of the teenage Plantagenet princes Edward and Richard, believed to have been murdered by their uncle Richard III. But it's the love story that should grab readers, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/600587/portrait-unknown-woman
10. Water for Elephants

    Posted Nov 12th 2006, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

    ... Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Hodder & Stoughton, HK$120 The inspiration for this novel was a photograph taken by Edward J. Kelty, who followed circuses around the US in the 1920s and 30s. Just as his work enticed Sara Gruen into an eerily charming world, so her novel lures readers under the big top for a romance involving a vet, an elephant called Rosie and an equestrian ...

    http://www.scmp.com/node/571205

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