Archives for December 2009

2009 Recommendations for 2010: Adam Williams describes the books that impressed him over the last year

Thursday, December 31, 2009

HISTORY Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War Volume III by Jonathan Sumption ( Faber and Faber) You have to wait ten years for each volume but Jonathan Sumption’s history of the Hundred Years War between England and France is of a scale and scholarship perhaps only matched before by Edward Gibbon with his Decline and […]

Thoughts on Today’s Headlines: Akmal Shaikh

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

It’s sad when cultures cannot meet halfway. It happened after the Americans bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Every Chinese believed that it was deliberate while most Westerners thought it was an accident. The dislocation was surreal. No argument could bridge the gulf of understanding or mindset. Old friends and colleagues shook their heads and […]

Forthcoming talks by Adam in January 2010

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Adam will be speaking about the The Book of the Alchemist at the Beijing Bookworm on Tuesday 19th January at 7.30pm. After three successful novels set in China, local novelist Adam Williams turns his attentions elsewhere for his latest book, a fabulous, intriguing story of redemption and courage in a war-torn Andalucia. Don’t miss the […]