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Alan Gibbons, a writer of fiction for young adults, drops by to share his tales and to talk about being a part of this year’s Young Reader’s festival.

Noreen Mir talks to illustrator and writer Jon Berkeley about his writing and why he changed from an illustrator to become a writer.

Hear Hong Kong based author Nury Vittachi, one of the authors of this year's Young Readers Festival, talk to Noreen Mir about his views on creativity in Hong Kong and his book.

Children's author and illustrator Gavin Coates, one of the authors of this year's Hong Kong International Young Reader's Festival, tells us why he chooses to focus on the environment.

We meet author, historian and teacher, Paul Letters. We find out about Paul's brand new wartime thriller "A Chance Kill", which is the first in a planned trilogy. Also, we hear about Paul's own fascinating life story.

Hear author Sarah Brennan talk to Noreen Mir on the 123 Show about her latest book "The Tale of Rodney Ram".

We celebrate the birthday of a romantic literary giant, and the king of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, who was born today in 1809. Writer and commentator Nury Vittachi likes a good ghost story, so we welcome him back to the studio to talk about a bit of Gra...

Angie Man talked to Julia Donaldson, author of the Gruffalo, about her writing style and she began by asking her why did she come to Hong Kong. Plus Julia read part of the children book to our listeners.

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...

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...

Shannon Young is an American twenty-something living in Hong Kong. She is an editor and the author of several e-books including “Pay Off: How One Millennial Eliminated Nearly $80,000 in Student Debt in Less Than Five Years”. Her new memoir, “Year of Fi...

Ira Trivedi was in town for the HK International Literary Festival to launch her book 'India in Love' which focuses on India's sexual revolution. But Ira usually writes fiction, so Reenita Malhotra Hora asked her why she chose to do things differently ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Phil Whelan meets French author and academic François Drémeaux. He is one of the speakers of the Hong Kong Book Fair 2014. The body of his work concerns French presence in this and other former colonies.

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...