Listen to this special podcast series co-produced by the British Council and the Hong Kong Writers Circle for Hong Kong Book Fair 2017, to get a taste of the terrain of the writing life through the lens of British writers Sara Wheeler, Tim Moore and Sophie Hannah.
British travel writer and humourist Tim Moore discusses his quest for adventures, from a vintage Rolls-Royce to a donkey, ahead of his visit to Hong Kong Kong.
"I was an accidental long distance cyclist"
The prize-winning travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler talks about her travel from the Antarctic to the Arctic and the experiences she had writing about hope in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as her book O My America: Second Acts in a New World about reinvention in a foreign land.
"You can find hope everywhere if you look for it. The human spirit is still flickering."
International best-selling crime fiction writer and poet Sophie Hannah talks about reuniting with Hercule Poirot, in her new book Closed Casket, written after the great detective novelist Agatha Christie. She also talks more broadly her writings in a number of literature genres.
"I have been an Agatha Christie fan since the age of 10... it's been a huge honour... now I travel around the world being a sort of Agatha Christie missionary."
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