Philip Hensher is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including The Mulberry Empire, the 2008 Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of The Badgers and winner of The Royal Society Of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 20...

Xu Xi is the author of nine books of fiction and essays. Recent titles are Access Thirteen Tales (2011), the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010). She is also an editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English, most recently, The Queen of Sta...

Mark O’Neill was born in London, educated at Oxford University and has been living and working in Asia since 1978. He is the author of “Frederick, The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria”, which is also available in Chinese. Mark is also the...

Phi Whelan meets Dr.Shereen El Feki who's a writer, broadcaster and academic, and who's also in town for the HK Lit Fest. She is an expert on social change in the Arab region, particularly as it relates to sexual and reproductive life. She's also the a...

Joe Dunthorne’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and has featured on Channel 4, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. A pamphlet collection, Joe Dunthorne: Faber New Poets 5 was published in 2010. His first novel, Submarine, was published in 200...

Luke Harding is one of the speakers of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2014. He speaks to Noreen Mir about his book " The Snowden Files" and explains why he was interested in the story and how did he feel to see his book adapted to Hollyw...

Nigel Collett studied history at St Peter’s College, Oxford and biography at the University of Buckingham. After serving for twenty years in the British Army, he founded the Gurkha International Group. His publications include A Grammar, Phrase Book an...

US Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco joins Phil Whelan on Morning Brew with writer Xu Xi. His collection "City of a Hundred Fires" received the prestigious Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, and his most recent book is nonfiction, "For All of Us, One Today", wh...

Peter Suart is a former Hong Kong resident. He tells us what he will be talking about at the Hong Kong Book Fair. Among other things we also find out why he considers himself a "Mugwamp"!

Phil Whelan meets British author Susan Barker. She is the author of the novels "Sayonara Bar", "The Orientalist and the Ghost", and has just published her third work "The Incarnations", which involved spending several years living in Beijing, researchi...