'Golden Boy' was titled 'Gwailo' outside the US. If you enjoyed that, you might like 'Diamond Hill', a view from the other side of the tracks.
Diamond Hill
'Golden Boy' was titled 'Gwailo' outside the US. If you enjoyed that, you might like 'Diamond Hill', a view from the other side of the tracks.
Diamond Hill
Pete Moss's "No Babylon: A HK Scrapbook" is also an excellent read.
Peter Moss, author of the autobiographical trilogy Twilight of Empire
A while ago there was a article about a book in the Review section in Sundays SCMP about a young family living on one of the islands with an autistic (I think) child. Does anyone remember the title?
Thats it. Cheers!
Read this last week - thought it was dreadful. I would be very surprised if he had actually made it through the Royal Marines training course with the attitude that he had. The only saving grace was the lack of self-pity for the totally self-inflicted mess he got himself into. Not recommended!
I've found some gems published by local universities. You might have to go digging through all the academic non-fiction books, but HKU has put out some good books.
http://www.hkupress.org
Also, some of the non-fiction books are actually quite good reads if you have an interest in HK and its history.
This was interesting:
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Slightest-.../dp/0774810459
Last edited by PDLM; 25-10-2011 at 03:09 PM.
The book. Guy sounded like a lazy bum. I stuck with the whole thing as I wanted to know what happened in the end! And as I say, I seriously doubt his version of what happened at the end of his Marine "career"- as I'm the daughter of a Royal Marine officer. I tried not to let that influence my reading of the rest of the book and disregarded that in my mind. But unfortunately I just didn't like him at all.
Last edited by Satay Sue; 25-10-2011 at 04:14 PM.