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Firelight of a Different Colour
When Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing threw himself to his death from the terrace of Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental Hotel in 2003, he was the greatest star of his generation in the city. A …
Simple Life
Seen Dimly Before Dawn
Walter Parrish is fifteen, handsome, athletic and highly intelligent. But his head is also stuffed full of ideas gleaned from romantic poetry and so, when he spends the summer on …
Mine Own Executioner
Felix Milne is a London psychoanalyst whose clientele usually consists of bed-wetting children, mousy typists with secret pasts and affluent middle-aged women who are bored with …
Developing the Heart
English novelist E.M. Forster wrote his last and best-loved work, A Passage to India, both as a paean to his love for India and as a tribute to the relationships he formed with …
Sundry Creditors
After the works party of Midlands engineering firm Lang's, the Chairman, Gustavus Lang, collapses and dies. His power-crazed half-brother Walter attempts to seize control of the …
John Gower, Trilingual Poet
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he …
A Death in Hong Kong
Winner of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong's History Book Prize, 2017 In January 1980 a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His …