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Author Yiyun Li. Picture: Alamy

Where Reasons End – Yiyun Li channels son’s suicide for latest novel

The profoundly sad premise might prove challenging for some but the rewards are spare, austere prose and a ‘realer than real’ read

14 Feb 2019

Handout image shows book cover Jackie Chan, Never Grow Up.

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Prostitutes, gambling, alcohol: book reveals Jackie Chan’s darker side

Martial arts action star recounts his days of high living as well as challenges of parenthood and breaking into Hollywood on his own terms

6 Dec 2018 11

Yu Hua’s short stories portray disturbing realities of modern China

The April 3rd incident cements the Chinese author’s position as a literary enfant terrible, mixing techniques and times to weave narratives that are more fantasy than fiction

29 Nov 2018 1

George RR Martin’s Blood & Fire.

Game of Thrones prequel sticks to incest, dragons and destruction formula

The latest book from the Game of Thrones creator tracks the Targaryen empire’s intimately entwined family tree

21 Nov 2018

Book Cover A Death in Peking: Who Killed Pamela Werner by Graeme Sheppard

A Death in Peking sheds new light on grisly murder of expat woman

A 2011 bestselling book threw a salacious spotlight on a long-forgotten killing that occurred in China’s capital in 1937
It compelled Graeme Sheppard to turn his cooler, more contemplative gaze onto the case

15 Nov 2018

Ma Jian’s China Dream: scathing satire of an equally absurd reality

Untethered from the restrictions of his homeland, the Britain-based author, whose talks at Hong Kong literary festival were cancelled without explanation, draws a dystopic vision of China’s dark realities

8 Nov 2018 1

Book cover Red Birds: Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds brims with anger at human cost of war

Pakistani writer’s third novel paints the familiar sight of a land bombed out of recognition, in a profoundly sad lament for innocent lives lost

1 Nov 2018

Books and Literature

What to read in 2019, from literary greats to emerging authors

2 Jan 2019

Teach4HK founder Arnold Chan, who was formerly an analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Books and Literature

From finance to an NGO: how a book changed one man’s life

23 Dec 2018

Books and Literature

The best books of 2018 - ones that made us laugh and cry

19 Dec 2018