Adam will be interviewed on the The Hannah Murray Show today, 7th January, 2010 at 14.25 (CET).
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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 very first China launch for his brand new book, featuring a Q&A with Stephen Bradley, diplomat, businessman and writer, who is currently working on a parallel history of the Roman and Han Empires.
For reservation details and further information please Click Here!
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Adam will be speaking about The Book of the Alchemist at M on the Bund in Shanghai on Saturday 30th January at 4.00pm.
In a conversation with local Shanghai historian Paul French, Adam will talk about his book and explain the reasons why he has branched into medieval European history to create an epic novel that is full of excitement, colour, adventure and romance, and which at the same time explores dark themes that are relevant to the world today.
Joining them will be Russian businessman, historian and Orientalist, Maxim Moskalev, formerly of the Oriental Studies Institute of Moscow University, where he headed the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Click here to order ‘The Book of the Alchemist’ from Amazon.co.uk
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[...] I don’t play golf so having spent twenty years of weekends lying on sofas watching Zena: Warrior Princess or whatever else Star World had to offer, writing a novel seemed an incremental hitch up from slob-dom. One day a friend and I finished watching a TV version of Conrad’s Nostromo at 3 in the morning and whiskey fueled decided that ‘Mowal choice ish whash witing’s all about’ and then and there decided we’d each write a novel to illustrate it.
Twelve hours of hangover later, trying stupidly to walk the Wall from Simatai to Jinshanling, whilst crawling from flagstone to flagstone and dizzying at the precipices, I somehow thought of a plot. It ended up with my friends calling the police to find me, but I had a novel in my head that five years later was published. Publish one they want another, so writing’s become a bit of a moonlight career (on weekends and public holidays of course, if anybody from Jardines is reading this). [...]
Taken from Why I Write: Adam Williams – Interview by JFK Miller in Urbanatomy Shanghai
Editor’s note: we apologise to readers for Adam’s misspelling of Xena: Warrior Princess. His mind must really have been off the boil when conducting this interview because we know for a fact that during this television viewing period of his life he was also addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and failed to mention it.
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On August 22nd Adam Williams and Chinese author, Hong Ying, were married by the Mayor of Force, Dr Augusto Curti, at a civil ceremony in the town hall of the hill-top Italian village in Le Marche where the couple have a second home.
Photo shows, in addition to Hong Ying, Adam and Dr Curti, bridesmaid Sybil (Adam and Hong Ying's two-year-old daughter) and Adam's daughter by his first marriage, Clio.
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Adam, Hong Ying and Sybil
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Adam and Hong Ying's Wedding in Force, Italy
Adam has just updated the Literary and Historical Speeches section of this website with his recent after dinner speech given on 13th March 2009 at the Legation Quarter as part of the Beijing Literary Festival.
Adam will be appearing on stage in conversation with Mara Moustafine, author of Secrets and Spies on Monday 16th March 2009 at 12.30pm.
Mara Moustafine was born in Harbin to a family of Russian Jews. Her book, Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files tells the story of her family’s life over 50 turbulent years in China and her quest to uncover the fate of family members who fled the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in the 1930s, only to be caught in Stalin’s purges. She’s joined today by Adam Williams, whose equally fascinating family history in China informs his interest in Mara’s writing.
Adam also will be making the after dinner address at The Bookworm International Literary Festival Gala Dinner on Friday 13th March 2009 at 7.00pm
We cordially invite you to please join us for our very special International Literary Festival’s Gala Dinner, an intimate evening of cocktails, Italian haute cuisine, and the personal company of fifteen, internationally-recognized authors. Held in the elegant, newly-opened Ristorante Sadler of the Former American Legation Quarter, enjoy the conversation and personal insights of a festival author at your very own table and relish an evening of pure indulgence, delicious food and splendid company. Following the welcome reception guests will move into the comfortable ambience of the restaurant to dine on a specially prepared menu created by two-star Michelin Italian celebrity chef Claudio Sadler, himself an author of several cookery books. Hosted by Paul Eldon, Suggested dress-code: cocktail dress/lounge suit.
For more information please check the festival schedule on the Beijing Bookworm website.
Adam was joined by fellow writers Jasper Becker, Edward Gargan and Catherine Sampson in a discussion published by City Weekend – The Beijing International Literary Festival and Beijing’s Literary History
The British Chamber of Commerce in China presents:
BUSINESS LEADERS DEBATE: “THE CURRENT ECONOMY AND CHINA’S ROLE”
Join Seven BritCham Chairs, Past and Present, for a Debate on Impact of the Crisis on Foreign Business in China and the Future for the UK and Chinese Economies.
Tuesday, 17th March 2009
China has enjoyed unprecedented growth over the past thirty years but the current world economic crisis is raising many concerns, not only about the banking and financial services industry, but also about the underlying principles of the way we will do business in the future. How are these issues affecting both Chinese and British business and what may the future hold for the two economies?”
This is a unique event: the first time we have gathered together Chairs of the British Chamber of Commerce for a panel discussion. It is an opportunity to interact with a highly experienced and influential panel of business leaders who will share their analysis and perspectives on issues that matter to British business in China, and it promises to be a lively and wide-ranging debate.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to put questions to the panel.
The Panel:
* Brian Outlaw, China-Britain Business Council
* Adam Williams, Jardine Matheson (China) Ltd
* Peter Batey, Vermillion Partners Ltd
* Jean-Marie Gescher, CGA-China
* Gary Dirks, BP
* Michael Fosh, Herbert Smith
Moderator:
Nigel Clark, China Central Goldfields PLC and current Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2009
Time: 17:30 – 19:30 Panel Discussion and Q&A. Registration from 17:00
Venue: Park Hyatt Hotel
2 Jianguomenwai Street, Chaoyang District. Telephone: 010-85671234
Cost: Members – RMB150, Non-Members RMB300
Access: All Welcome
RSVP: Email britcham@pek.britcham.org or call 8525 1111. ext. 707
Please register with us in advance. If you have registered and discover that you cannot make the event please give us at least 24 hours notice; without sufficient notice we will have to invoice you for the event. Thank you.
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