In a series of flashbacks (the plot is not linear), we learn about his troubled childhood, first as a motherless child in Malaysia and then as a Raj orphan. Covering the hottest new eats, the best places to play, offbeat takes on local culture, and so much more, Localiiz is every Hongkonger’s destination for how to live a well-rounded life in our vibrant city.

Suraityta meistriškai, vis stebinanti naujais siužeto vingiais, neleidžianti snausti, nes plevenanti per skirtingus britų imperijos laikmečius. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Young went to Paris after secondary school for a year to study art: "But I hated it.Their friends are Ricky, a pot-smoking Australian radio presenter who lives on Lamma Island, and Elaine, a Londoner who doesn't really want to be in Hong Kong but has come along for the ride. Having lived in both places, I find it hard to understand why someone would prefer to live in London over HK unless they had strong social or family ties keeping them there. He is a supremely interesting and complicated character even though he lacks self-knowledge and seems unaware of so much going on around him. For the majority I had pegged it as a three star read - there were some lovely passages but it hadn't exactly wowed me. The novel is bittersweet and sad to its deepest core, although there is a lot of beautiful irony as well.

Last Friends (2013) [“The satisfying conclusion to Gardam’s Old Filth trilogy offers exquisite prose, wry humor, and keen insights into aging and death. Read and judge for yourself, particularly if you are interested in empires because this gives a worms eye view of the Imperial endeavour what it is like to be brought up and live within the physical necessities and mental space of an empire. Reading at first I thought I'd pass the book on to my Dad but gradually decided against it always a bad sign when you think of the books that you can't give to a person. But the middle part was boring to me oftentimes, and the protagonist, as told in the third person, would shuttle back and forth between the here and the past and sometimes while in the here, he would see his wife who was dead (ergo, here AND the past). And, I am still musing about how much of the book is about growing old and how "what seems important" changes.

Private banks are also looking for China-skilled staff to help them capture a slice of the country's burgeoning wealth. Now I've read in the news that with the competition from mainland graduates with degrees from top US/UK universities combined with inflow of mainland cash into HK, there is now less and less need for firms in HK to hire FILTH. In that time I completely fell in love with London; it was my love, my life and I fell in love with theatre.

It was pretty good at the beginning, and pretty good at the end, in which a lot of loose ends were tied up. Expats who might have never worked in the City, Europe's financial hub, could walk into good jobs and cut deals in the soft-carpeted confines of the Hong Kong Club or over a pint at the Captain's Bar in the Mandarin Oriental. Born in Malaya to a mother who immediately dies and a father whose heart has been petrified by the first world war, Eddie is expelled to the loveless mother-country.When things were really bad, she reminded herself of the well-qualified friends in England who have been working in McDonald's. But Betty, his late wife, understood him better than anyone, even though she never asked more of him than he was willing to give. His mother passed away after his birth, leaving a scared, emotionally unattached father to first hand him over to his carer, Ada, to live in her village, and then rescued by his aunt May and sent to England to become a proper Englishman.

something he quietly lived - understandably so - starved for emotional intimacy - the wishes any child wants to feel with their 'own' parents. It had been said that he fled London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Thomas Benge has a Masters degree in International History from Staffordshire University, and taught full curriculum in Seoul for three years.Harry "Hazza" Harding, a Chinese-speaking Australian who has become a TV celebrity in Guangdong, has had a rough week because of the row between the two countries. A small joke that gets way too much distracting play in this novel about Edward Feathers, ostensibly successful British barrister and Hong Kong lawyer and judge.