Drawing on his experience as Professor of Law at the People’s University in Beijing, He Jiahong, is a master of story-telling which takes us to incredible parts of China that we never see. His highly-acclaimed Hanging Devils is set in the early 1990s when lawyer Hong Jun, recently returned from the United States, sets up a fledgling […]
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Purpose, Passion, Grit with Humphrey: Jim Clemente
In the mid-80’s, while working as a prosecutor in Manhattan, Jim Clemente was determined that the head of a summer camp who abused him when he was just fifteen should be punished. He went undercover to help in the arrest. The FBI then offered Jim a job, and he became a criminal profiler with the […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Alex Anstey
Goldster Inside Story takes you far behind the scenes of the National Health Service with our guest Alex Anstey, a consultant dermatologist at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath. In his highly-acclaimed book, Under the Skin: A Dermatologist’s Fight to Save the NHS, Alex shows us the realities of front-line NHS clinical services, taking the reader on […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Michael Vatikiotis
Michael Vatikiotis has been a writer, broadcaster and journalist in Asia for more than 35 years. With family origins in the Middle East, he has lived in Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as well as Hong Kong. He currently lives in Singapore, working for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a private foundation that facilitates dialogue to resolve armed […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Doublespeak & double standards: Pakistan’s take on Islamophobia’ on Wednesday May 25, 2022 at 2-4pm UK time Moderator Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist and activist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, correspondent for The Diplomat Speaker for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Rachel Tretheway
Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters – Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary – would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their father – ‘the greatest Englishman’ – to their brother, golden boy […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Helen McGinn
Helen McGinn is married with three children and lives in the New Forest with too many dogs and a needy cat. She is also hopeless with a hangover, a condition which inspired her creating The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, an award-winning blog and best-selling wine book. What authority does she have to author such a title? […]
Read MoreInternational Thriller Writers ThrillerFest
ThrillerFest is the annual conference of the International Thriller Writers. This unique, popular, and rapidly expanding organization was created in 2005 by several bestselling authors in order to bring thousands of writers, readers, publishers, producers, editors, and agents together to promote and support thriller authors everywhere. GOOGLE, EXPERTS OR TRAVEL? Researching Your Novel Panel Master: […]
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