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Haunting Tales of Hong Kong

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:13:32 +0800

Take a journey into the dark side of the city and you’ll find ghosts everywhere: protesting in Statue Square, lurking on the MTR, grooving in Wanchai nightclubs, dining in Cheung Chau, and wreaking havoc in the New Territories. These tales will make you think again about what ghosts are and why they will never stop haunting us.

A collection of thirteen wonderfully spooky short stories from some of Hong Kong’s most exciting writers: Michael A Ashton, Michael Gibb, Lawrence Gray, Matthew Harrison, Ken Kamoche, Diana McPartlin, Leela Devi Panikar, Sasha Seth and Roseanne Thong.

“At last, our writers, spelunkers of the netherworld, have dutifully paid the invisible ones their rightful homage.”—Francis Moriarty, Hong Kong Broadcaster and Journalist.

"Hong Kong is a haunted city, and, taken together, these stories evoke the atmosphere of a place where the dead mingle readily with the living...a damn good read, perfect for a long, sub-tropical night." -- Rosie Milne, author of 'Holding the Baby'

"For those of you who live by 'everyday another dollar' and are stuck in a routine, beware a new and unearthly thrill could be lurking in the next nightclub or MTR station. Life isn't always what it appears to be and your next encounter could be eerily life changing! Enter the realm of Haunting Tales thirteen short stories by some of Hong Kong's best writers. This collection is gripping, from Diana McPartlin's Demon in the Dance Club to The Immortals by Lawrence Gray, you will enter a realm of Hong Kong you may not have known existed. You won't be able to put the book down until the very end."

Tracey Furniss, Parents' Journal.

"Haunting Tales of Hong Kong illuminated Chinese customs, cultures, wisdom and experience. These stories possess fable-like qualities." Asian Review of Books.

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Sweat & the City

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:07:31 +0800

"Sweat & the City is an outstanding collection of Hong Kong short stories that inspires the budding writer and rewards readers."

South China Morning Post.

"This anthology is an original, seeking to collect the multiple unique instances that compose this inimitable, post-colonial, global, Anglo-Chinese metropolis, screened through English, but always identifiable as only in Hong Kong. It offers humour, pathos, satire, fantasy; and the fantasies of fast living in the big, bad, fast Hong Kong lane tell us as much about the nature of humdrum work and its relation to social desire as about anything real in hong Kong. i look forward to a growing chorus of fiction and poetry, rising to the symphonic sweep this great city deserves."

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of Joss and Gold, and Sister Swing.

"Sweat & The City" is an outstanding collection of Hong Kong short stories that inspires the budding writer and rewards readers."

4 stars! South China Morning Post, May 7th, 2006.

The review goes on to say:

"Debutant writer and lawyer Peter Gregoire's "House of Cards" is a simple and convincing tale of financial revenge that takes an obvious storytelling technique based on themotive of greed and spins it into a marvelous story.

Writers' Circle veteran Lawrence Gray, with shades of Haruki Murakami, does The Devil's Work with skill. The story is about a lawyer-turned-bluesman torn between "making money out of human frailty and greed" and seeking Hong Kong's soul.

In The Playground, Hong Kong born Jane Wallace conveys in the spare monologue of an amah the realities of her life and her complicity in the lives of others.

Similarly, Janna Cawrse captures in The Attendant some sharp pbservations about the cultural fiscal divide papered over by the pretences of respectability that money tries to buy.

Still, money has its price, as does complicity- and Auditing and Audacity, by Diana McPartlin, exposes as a cheap veneer the quality of corporate respectability touted by the likes of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a body that seems to attract mockery and mirth in quite a few stories in Sweat."

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Hong Kong Whodunnits

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:01:55 +0800

ONE CITY, TWELVE MURDERS

The Streets of Hong Kong run crimson with blood.

Hong Kong Whodunnits is a collection of twelve short murder mysteries written by some of the city's finest authors.

Featuring: John Biggs, Mio Debnam, Michael Gibb, Lawrence Gray, Ian Greenfield, Peter Gregoire, Tammy Ho, Diana McPartlin, Shobha Nihalani, Jane Wallace & Jeff Zroback.

"Like any good whodunnit, this anthology keeps you guessing from start to finish. The contributors' voices take you on a series of journeys thorugh Hong Kong's dark side - from expat excess to triad territory. Each murder story reveals the telltale cultural fingerprints unique to this city."

Kate Whitehead, author of Hong Kong Murders.

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Love & Lust

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:02:55 +0800

This sizzling new collection of short fiction from the Hong Kong Writers' Circle (Eds. Tammy Ho & Jeff Zroback) provides an Asian spin on the themes of love and lust. Featuring writing by some of Hong Kong's finest authors, this anthology will leave you in the mood for love... and lust.

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