Penulis: Gillian Bickley

ERROL PATRICK HUGH began sketching as a child. Throughout his architecture career in Canada and Hong Kong, he retained his passion for sketching. A Personal Journey Through Sketching confirms his com …

DEATH HAS A THOUSAND DOORS is set in the little-known Pyrenean country of Andorra in the late 1990s. Family complications abound. Jane Burns, an Australian accountant, is a recovering alcoholic with …

The narrator of TIGHTROPE, an extraordinary, curiously intellectual small girl, undertakes the demanding and costly burden of comprehending the world. Her father – a peculiar leftist intellectual, an …

PERCEPTIONS consists of short pieces, poetry or poem-like essays, written over a period of thirty years, on various serious and reflective topics, but with some humorous and occasional work too. As i …

Gives a brief history of the Games from their ancient origins in Greece to their revival in 1896. Surveys some of the triumphs enjoyed and difficulties encountered by the Olympic Movement over time. …

A fearless, intelligent and eager woman-mother, lover, wife and daughter-collects for the first time a selection of poetry from her first four decades of living and writing. Unhesitatingly she expose …

A sci-fi mystery novel, told by the fictional character, Chloe Chan. Professor Everywhere masquerades as an academic work written by Chloe, with footnotes and fictional bibliography…. Plunged into …

In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralp …

The main events of THE HANDOVER MURDERS are set against the volatile political situation in 1997 Hong Kong, immediately before, the same day as and shortly after the handover of sovereignty of the Br …

This novel-a black comedy set in Hong Kong-explores how people respond to the cultural manifestations of an international city; their reactions to cultural distinctions. Do they embrace them, recoil, …

Nick Powell, arriving in Hong Kong with his soon-to-be-ex-wife Lennox, finds himself drawn into the political machinations affecting the city as the Occupy movement of 2014 takes root. A fatal accide …

Hong Kong enters 1980 in a restless mood. As China’s doors open to foreign investment, Hong Kong’s manufacturing base declines and the number of illegal immigrants continues to grow. Britain’s lease …

Lists and explains more than 800 of the sayings that football commentators use./Is an enjoyable reference tool which can increase readers’ understanding of English language football commentaries and …

In Sightings: a collection of poetry with an Essay, "Communicating Poems", supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, academic turned full-time writer and editor Gillian Bickley i …

Kate Rogers’s first book of poetry. An honest, fresh account by a complex and sensitive woman who has travelled from her native Canada to see and experience new places, people and cultures. – This co …

Draws an intimate picture of twentieth century Hong Kong while telling the story of a typical Hong Kong bright boy and his devoted mother. It is also a story of scientific labour and discovery, where …

SEMPER FI gives a portrait of a young man and his experiences as an enlisted member of the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Orville Clubb begins at the beginning with his earliest memories and …

The sakura have fallen and frost is gaining ground. Yun, Rachel’s best friend has died, and she is at a loss. With his passing, she mourns the fabric of their friendship and the eternal warmth of his …

Chinese translation of Gillian Bickley’s first poetry collection, "For the Record". "These sixty poems are primarily about familiar things (the Tai Po Highway, Ko Shan theatre, the MTR …

The audio book of the complete main text of "The Golden Needle: the Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889)" is available. Consequently, it is possible for self-study students, students …

Arun, a young Mekong upland girl, falls in love and fascination with the forest and all it contains. The murder of a ranger and a frightening epidemic set her against the unprincipled and greedy expl …

Chinese translation of Gillian Bickley’s second poetry collection of sixty-nine poems speaks of general subjects of daily life observed in a Hong Kong context, on regional and international people an …

Chinese translation of selections from Gillian Bickley’s, "The Golden Needle…". Eight years research, supported generously with academic funds, produced this definitive biography of The F …

REVENGE FROM BEYOND is a gripping detective story set in Ancient China. It has a full cast of personalities and a mixture of motivations: a beautiful widow, an upright but inexperienced magistrate, a …

refrain recounts the author’s travels in India as an inexperienced and sensitive young man. The narrative shows wit, intelligence and a facility with words. The style is experimental and literary; an …

PARANOIA (The Walk and Talk with Angela) shows a man of solitary habits and a background of family disruption and multiple relationships. Disturbed by his girlfriend, Angela, who calls him "obli …

"Jeje sees the gleam revealed within the grime: his titular smoked pearl evocative of this interplay of light and dark. For tarnished things must once have been precious, and though Jeje writes …

In the novel, THE RELUCTANT TERRORIST: IN SEARCH OF THE JIZO, set in contemporary Hong Kong and Japan, with flashbacks to the Second World War, a Japanese businessman takes a deliberately modest reve …

Gillian Bickley’s second poetry collection of sixty-nine poems speaks of general subjects of daily life observed in a Hong Kong context, on regional and international people and events, on some famil …

THE MONKEY IN ME is a novel which foregrounds the fall of the American Empire, the current world economic crisis and the very real crisis of conscience in our culture. It provides a moment of reflect …

GILLIAN JONES wrote A MISTED MIRROR as a response to her late husband Keith Jones’s illness with Parkinson’s Disease and to his poetry. Structured around the poetry, the novel imagines and explores t …

MISHPACHA – FAMILY is the story of four women living together as wives of one man in the modern state of Israel. Each arrives from a different background-the anti-semitism of Communist Russia; the ex …

MEMOIRS OF AN ICE-CREAM LADY is a charming and humorous series of anecdotes and reflections by a single Chinese lady, who established and managed an ice-cream parlour selling top-end ice-cream on the …

The Honourable Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education and Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service, was also a Hong Kong Police Magistrate. His work in …

Life is tough for fifteen-year-old computer nerd Olivia Best, a typical teenage misfit, very much a loner, who is being severely bullied by a gang of boys from a neighbouring estate. Together with he …

IMMORTELLE AND BHANDAARAA POEMS is Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming’s second collection of poetry, shortlisted for the International Proverse Prize for Literature (2009). / Inspired by the Hindu philosophy o …

HOME, AWAY, ELSEWHERE is a poetry collection in three parts. Home is events, situations, descriptions, and attitudes about Hong Kong, which is now Vaughan’s home. Away contains poems about events, si …

In HILARY AND DAVID, David, a lonely elderly struggling novelist, contacts Hilary, with whom he has a friend in common, via Facebook, and an unlikely friendship develops via a series of messages. The …

Patty Ho introduces HEART TO HEART as follows: ‘This book is a collection of the poems which I have written mostly in the past five years. "All beings are like scattered coins, love is the strin …

Frederick Stewart, born in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was known by his contemporaries as the "founder of Hong Kong Government education". He was the first headmaster of the Central Sc …

This collection of sixty poems was written during almost thirty years’ residence in Hong Kong. Most are on explicitly Hong Kong topics, and reflect the writer’s personal experience and knowledge of H …

THE DAY THEY CAME is the gripping story of a teenager and young adult’s adventures in the South of France and the African Congo. Gerard meets and forms an unbreakable bond with the alien Eudoxus, who …

The Narrator of CHOCOLATE’S BROWN STUDY IN THE BAG is a thirty-three month old chocolate-coloured toy poodle, born in Australia and flown to Hong Kong for sale in a pet-shop. He has become a well-lov …

GILLIAN BICKLEY’S fourth collection of poems in which she responds to people, art and life, creating a record of her particular space in time. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sukhothai, Honolulu, Mexic …

CEMETERY MISS YOU, in the form of transcripts from audio recordings (similar to Samuel Beckett’s "Krapp’s Last Tape") recounts the first year or so of a Pakistani illegal’s experiences in H …

Mischievous adolescent Song Bao Bao grows up devoted to his country under the stringent eyes of the Communist party. Precocious for his age, he has strong innate curiosity. He discovers many truths t …

An epic adventure in the tradition of an ancient hero myth. Its two heroes, a man and a woman, present the story from two perspectives moving in and out of reality. ASTRA AND SEBASTIAN documents the …

Tells of a quest for home, told through a vivid and lyrical sequence of narratives. Sophronia Liu chronicles first her beginnings in 1950s Hong Kong. Her parents – each an indigenous inhabitant of a …

TO EASTERN LANDS features prose, photographs and verse from the 1960s onwards about a Melbourne boy who became increasingly involved in Asia. The prose passage sets out the social, cultural and intel …

THE CHINESE OF MACAU A DECADE AFTER THE HANDOVER is an important contribution to the study of identity, a fundamental topic in the twenty-first as in the latter part of the twentieth century. Identit …

The poems in SHADOW PLAY were written during the five year period since James Norcliffe’s previous collection, Villon in Millerton (Auckland University Press, 2007). Norcliffe professes himself not t …

LIFE LINES is a meditation on loss, exploring themes of love, grief, dislocation and transition. Her work addresses the vast and unruly dimensions of loss – loss of home, of time, of people, of self …

Set in Beijing and Hong Kong, ARTICLE 109 is a high-octane, page-turning thriller. A young solicitor, investigating the suicide of his former colleague, unravels a conspiracy to cause chaos on the fi …

Celia is a grotesque, a giantess with progeria, a syndrome that makes her body age at three times the normal rate. Her horrified mother left her, newly-born, on the nearest doorstep. Let’s not feel s …

In MAN’S LAST SONG, Tam’s first full-length novel the human race faces imminent extinction. The year is 2090. The global population has shrunk to less than half a million; median age about sixty. Aft …

THE VILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS is set in a fictional, southern European country. After a brief period of democratic reform, the nation has once again become a totalitarian state under the rule of the C …

THE SHINGLE BAR SEA MONSTER AND OTHER STORIES uses surrealism and black humour to explore human predicaments, emotions and aspirations, and to suggest solutions to life’s challenges. The situations a …

VERA MAGPIE explores the gap between childhood fantasies of adult life and the stark reality of life in a women’s prison. The eponymous narrator, Vera Magpie herself, is serving time for the murder o …

In STEPS TO PARADISE AND BEYOND, which follows Footfalls Echo in the Memory as the second volume of his autobiography, VERNER BICKLEY describes the events and issues that were important to him during …

Lawrence Gray’s short stories and texts were written as the antidote to his screenwriting, and in ODDS AND SODS he allows himself to have fun with words alone. Characters in this world change their l …

CHASING LIGHT is Patricia Glinton-Meicholas’ third book of poetry and a finalist for the International Proverse Prize 2012. A challenging and controversial complexity of opinion pervades the collecti …

RAIN ON THE PACIFIC COAST is a tapestry of human experience, in which desires and passing worlds crisscross, collude, and collide. Each poem is a tiny spark that flies off in various types of encount …

Pearl Green and Karen (Kaz) Henderson are two successful Hong Kong women, whose old friendship brings them back together after many years to set up an archaeological project for Pearl’s philanthropic …

English-Chinese bilingual story. MILA THE MAGICIAN tells the adventures of a young man, Mila, who leaves home to learn black magic. After overcoming many difficulties, he becomes a powerful sorcerer. …

A distinguished single-author poetry collection in free verse. The poet is serious in understanding people, relationships, languages, cultures, religions and the meaning of existence. She has lived i …

UNIVERSITY DAYS is one of a series of young adult novellas, set in London. Here, fraternal twins, Olivia and Melanie, are aged eighteen. Olivia is studying at Imperial College and Melanie at the Roya …

UNLOCKING is Mary-Jane Newton’s second book of verse. In this vibrant new collection, Newton evokes a life experienced in cycles, characterized by peaks and troughs, fecundity and sterility, growth a …

The subject of this biography, Sir George Macartney, was of mixed Scottish-Chinese parentage. Based in remote Kashgar on the famous Silk Road, he was caught up in the great 19th and early 20th centur …

IN VITRO is the debut poetry collection of prize-winning poet, Laura Solomon. It covers a wide range of topics:- the prophetess Pythia, England’s Guy Fawkes, an alternative reality for New Zealand wr …

Teen activist Pet Peasant has no time for administrative red tape. All she wants is an audience with the high regent. Without changes in the law, her village will suffer. With her best friends, Pet s …

In Time of War shows how a British naval officer, confined during the Second World War as a Prisoner of War in Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation, engaged his mind during those three and a half year …

ALL AGOG IN CHINA is for everyone who is interested in China; its history and travel potential. It’s the fusion of the enthusiasm and energy of a couple made in Hong-Kong. – He’s from Edinburgh and S …

ALPHABET consists of twenty-six poems concerning the vagaries of failure, the underrated opposite of success. But in this case, the context of failure necessarily includes the genre of contemporary p …

In TIGER AUTUMN, the reader meets again several of the characters from Red Bird Summer, witnesses further terrible events in Kowloon Walled City, and sees the Hei Ling Chau Island leper colony become …

Struggling with the daily torture of call-centre work, Troy’s mid-twenties disillusion hits its lowest ebb when his girlfriend reveals that she has been sleeping with her driving instructor. Somethin …

CRY OF THE FLYING RHINO is set in 1996 Malaysia and Borneo, told from multiple viewpoints and in multiple voices. Malaysian Chinese family doctor Benjie Lee has had a careless one night stand with hi …

A FAITHFUL RECORD OF THE LISBON MARU INCIDENT translates an original Chinese publication covering an important chapter in Hong Kong’s wartime history, with additional material and commentary. It give …

In this collection of poetry, written over half a lifetime, Hayley Ann Solomon focuses primarily on the pursuit of excellence, immortality achieved through finite life, love in all its forms, and soc …

Long ago secrets, lost emotions and persistent sadness at human conflict are finally revealed in this first publication of journals written by a young American visiting the Far East for the first tim …

Reverse mentoring has been doing the rounds in the corporate world for some years now, where it is used to introduce senior management to new technology and social media as business tools. Yet this o …

What Thomas Bland, formerly senior manager now plain senior, expects upon his retirement in the seaside city of Durban isn’t remotely what he gets. His wife, Caro, leaves him, and he loses friends th …

A succession of tales where characters, many of whom are both somber and ridiculous, have the sinews of their will cut by the knife of fate, or desire. Saerman occasionally seems to be arguing that t …

Near the end of a twitchy year, as China opens its doors to foreign investment and Hong Kong ponders its future, Pearl Green returns on the same day that Marcus Brown arrives on a mission to set up a …

HK HOLLOW begins as a simple love story – love lost and love found – that records its bizarre elements in a matter-of-fact kind of way./ …

The settings of the stories in The Snow Bridge and Other Stories are drawn from a life spent in many countries. Several focus intently on a particular relationship: that between a husband and wife, m …

Bliss of Bewilderment is Dr Birgit Bunzel’s second collection of poetry./ "If we practice listening to our bewilderment inside, it ultimately leads to a more expansive understanding, a greater a …

Jonathan Locke Hart explores in a contemporary context the divine and human comedy, taking his inspiration from Dante, but also making and questioning poetry in a world where light shines "on ab …

An eclectic collection of poems that range from sardonically humorous to genuinely moving. The collection plays fast and loose with both language and form as it explores, among other things, linguist …

Many of the poems in Laura Solomon’s second poetry collection take the viewpoint of an historical person. The poems give voice, among others, to Lord Byron, Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes …

In The Layers Between, natural phenomena such as Matter, Water and Space are given their own voices; Philosophical concepts like Entropy, Consciousness and Information are allowed to speak for themse …

The fifty poems collected in Gillian Bickley’s Over The Years have been selected by Verner Bickley from her five previously published collections, four of which received publication grants from Hong …

A collection of poems: some relate to philosophy and some to old Chinese poems to which Patty Ho has added new thoughts. Others are more musical. Love and pain, dreams and disillusion, leaves and mem …

SHIFTING SANDS is Dr Deepa Vanjani’s debut poetry collection. She speaks of urbanisation and the loss of natural surroundings, the trap of illusions we humans are caught in, the lack of depth in rela …

Third play by Laura Solomon. BRAIN GRAFT centres around Isobella, who works at a publishing firm and is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She finds a surgeon to remove her tumour and decides to have a b …

Dr Bickley’s series of five graded poetry anthologies, POEMS TO ENJOY, is a well-established tool for learning and teaching English at all levels. The five books are each accompanied by an audio reco …

Dr Bickley’s series of five graded poetry anthologies, POEMS TO ENJOY, is a well-established tool for learning and teaching English at all levels. The five books are each accompanied by an audio reco …

Dr Bickley’s series of five graded poetry anthologies, POEMS TO ENJOY, is a well-established tool for learning and teaching English at all levels. The five books are each accompanied by an audio reco …

Dr Bickley’s series of five graded poetry anthologies, POEMS TO ENJOY, is a well-established tool for learning and teaching English at all levels. The five books are each accompanied by an audio reco …

Dr Bickley’s series of five graded poetry anthologies, POEMS TO ENJOY, is a well-established tool for learning and teaching English at all levels. The five books are each accompanied by an audio reco …

"Hazel Brown is a little girl who discovers a secret which can make her dream come true." A picture and story book for young children. Hazel is a little girl who wants to be a vet and disco …

Observations of life, from East to West: the transformation of Hong Kong over the years; the beauties and troubles of Asia and of other countries; the re-visitation of Italy, her homeland, after many …

SEEKING SOLACE, a collection of poetry in free verse, encompasses and glorifies one of the most quintessential of human needs, self help. The poet, Nikhil Parekh, takes the view that in the current w …

The title, "Twilight Language" derives its name from a polysemic language and communication system associated with ancient India. As used for the title of this collection, "Twilight la …

collection of five short stories and ten poems on diverse subjects and styles, written over a number of years. Each story grew out the author’s personal experiences and in many ways represents a diff …

Jane, Frank and Mia is about three people who cross each other’s paths by some unforeseen event. Jane and Frank are seemingly opposites. Jane is a Korean woman who came to the Netherlands to marry Mi …

Covers fifty years of Hong Kong’s maritime history, revealing much about shipping and salvage. Alan Loynd, well-known Marine Consultant and shipping columnist, Fellow of the Nautical Institute and th …

Collects 63 poems written or completed since Gillian Bickley’s last poetry collection, Perceptions, was published in 2012. To some extent these new poems reflect her activities, thoughts and experien …

The work of 90 poets from around the world, selected from entries for the 5th annual International Proverse Poetry Prize (2020). With poets’ brief biographies as well as background notes on their wor …

Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history. Edited, annotated transcription of newspaper reports of magistrate’s court …

HONG KONG: GROWING PAINS is an exploration of the city of Hong Kong, detailing experiences that exist within its ever-changing space, examining some of the pressures felt while growing up in the fina …

BETWEEN 1846 AND 1874, OVER 290, 000 CHINESE WERE EMBARKED AS INDENTURED LABOURERS destined mainly for Peru, Cuba and the British, French and Dutch West Indies. Of these, 15.13% did not reach their d …

Italian translation of selection from Gillian Bickley’s published poetry made by her husband, Verner Bickley. "The three words of the title summarize the content of this collection of poems very …

In Epochal Reckonings, poet, adjunct professor and editorial writer, J.P. Linstroth describes and responds to some of the crises of the first years of the 21st century. He aims, as he puts it, to cau …

The objectives of this book, The Year of the Apparitions, can be summed up in one word, survival. The survival game is hard for everyone. In my case, the stories that poetry and theatre can tell are …

The work of 69 poets from around the world, selected from entries for the 4th annual International Proverse Poetry Prize (2019). With poets’ brief biographies as well as background notes on their wor …

Macedonian writer, Marta Markoska writes about her passionate but tragically-ended story with her ex-husband, the devotion and loving support of one man, and her experiences with a few other men afte …

From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-1435) ordered eunuch Zheng He t …

The characters and voices of the poems in Hummingbird range across time and distance, from Wisconsin farms to Mexico, from Eve to Ezra Pound, from innocent young lovers to guilty priests and Greek my …

SAVAGE CHARM is autobiographical at its core, yet unsentimental, unapologetic, and rigorous in its exploration of related concepts such as self-knowledge, fictional identity, the city, the writing of …

Annotated translation of Reminiscences of the Plum-shaded Convent (Yingmeian Yiyu), written by China’s prominent essayist and poet Mao Xiang (1611-1693) in memory of his concubine Dong Xiaowan (1624- …

VIOLET is the expression of a woman seeking, achieving and deeply experiencing romantic and sensual love. The poems follow a similar trajectory to those of the English metaphysical poet John Donne an …

Under the shade of the feijoa trees offers a representative sample of Hayley Ann Solomon’s particular brand of high quality, emotionally resonant short stories. The styles and intensities vary extens …

Andrew Carter is a man in his thirties with a wife and child, greying hair and a tendency to go to bed before 10pm. His second book, THE THING IS, is a collection of charming and hilarious tales abou …

Contains annotated uncut transcriptions from archival material of five original narratives or journals of travel, covering visits to China, India, Ceylon, Java and Singapore during the interesting pe …

A woman, running from her past, is led by a mysterious locket to The White City. A father trying to save his dying daughter is preparing to make the greatest sacrifice. A young inventor, on the verge …

A detailed account by an Australian teacher of his experiences in Inner Mongolia, Melbourne, Southern China (Shenzhen) and Hong Kong. In 1977 Wayne, fresh out of university, finds himself in a job fo …

Anthology of one hundred and thirty-nine poems, the work of eighty-nine poets, selected from those which were entered in the third annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize in th …

Anthology of eighty-nine poems, the work of sixty-one poets, selected from those which were entered in the second annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize in 2017./The Proverse …

An anthology of thirty-one poems, selected from those which were entered in the inaugural annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize (single poems) in 2016./ The Proverse Poetry P …

A team of six US servicemen escape from a Vietcong prison-camp and become an easy prey for Satan. They encounter helpful local residents, the Head of Military Intelligence, pirates dealing in contrab …

In her metaphysical poetry collection, Black Holes Within Us, Marta Markoska calls the universe into play, as both the context for her love and as providing a means for its expression. Her poems are …

"London Letters…" presents family letters and other original family materials in their historical and social context on both sides of the Atlantic. We see, through the eyes of a young Ame …

The Golden Needle written by Dr. Gillian Bickley is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the legendary life of Frederick Stewart, the founder of the modern education system in Hong Kon …

Contains the work of sixty-seven poets from 15 countries. The one hundred and thirty-three or so poems were selected from those entered for the International Proverse Poetry Prize in 2021, the sixth …

Is Islam necessarily against women’s rights? Is Islam at odds with liberal ideals? Dr Alicia Lie argues that neither is true, through a carefully argued textual discussion of the Qur’an. The aim of R …

Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), b. Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, first local appointee as head of the permanent civil service, police magistrate, fir …

"These sixty poems are primarily about familiar things (the Tai Po Highway, Ko Shan theatre, the MTR, the USD…), occasions (the Mid-autumn Festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival…), and people …

English Italian bilingual selection from Gillian Bickley’s published poetry, made by her husband, Verner Bickley. "The three words of the title summarize the content of this collection of poems …

In traditional tales, it is usually a prince who sets out on an adventure to prove himself and/or to achieve some noble outcome to benefit others. But in PRINCESS FLOWER, it is a princess who underta …