Ladies’ Recreation Club, Hong Kong – Bookclub – October 21 – 6.30pm

If you’re interested and in Hong Kong places are strictly limited but you can try via inquiries@lrc.com.hk

“This October New York Times bestselling author and regular South China Morning Post weekend magazine contributor Paul French joins us for a conversation about books, Chinese history and telling lost stories. French has explored modern Chinese history through different genres and forms of writing to reach wide audiences worldwide. His work includes the awarding-winning true crime Midnight in Peking set in 1930s China, while City of Devils revisits the wild and crazy nightlife of wartime Shanghai, His latest book, Her Lotus Year, explores the scandalous 12 months (1924/1925) Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, spent in Hong Kong and China. We’ll talk about finding stories, recovering the forgotten and weaving their lives into China’s grand narrative to make compelling reads.”