At the end of last year I posted on this website a review of China’s political and economic situation (Annus Mirabilis et Horribilis), examining how it had come out of a year of wonders and catastrophes – through snow disasters, trouble in Tibet, an earthquake, Olympics and milk scandal – to find at the end […]
Family secrets and updated biography
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Adam has just updated the biography section of this website. Until the beginning of this year what had happened to his maternal grandfather had been a mystery. In 1946 Guy Lumley Biddulph Newmarch, who had just been released from a Japanese prison camp in Hong Kong, disappeared in South Africa and all attempts to find […]
China, 2008 – Annus Mirabilis et Horribilis
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Adam Williams, a resident of Beijing, reflects on the events, good and bad, which have occurred in China this year to draw some conclusions on how they might have affected the thinking and policies of the Chinese leadership and prepared them psychologically for the present world crisis.
A Christmas message from Adam Williams
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wishing you a tranquil Christmas and a Happy New Year Adam Williams
My favourite London restaurant
Monday, September 15, 2008
I’m a stick in the mud when it comes to restaurants in London. I go to the ones I know and like, and of these, Giovanni’s, a small Sicilian eatery in an alley off St Martin’s Lane is my favourite. The food is magnificent, the wine a delight (especially the Tancredi, grown and bottled in […]
Piers Williams flower paintings
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Piers Williams, Adam’s brother, will be exhibiting his flower paintings at Brantwood Severn Studio Exhibitions from 6th September to 12th October 2008. Visit his web site here – http://www.PiersArt.com
Adam Williams’ Summer Reading
Monday, May 5, 2008
In Italy this summer I will have with me a bagful of homework for my new novel on mediaeval Spain, including such exotica as the Penguin The Poem of the Cid, books on alchemy and astrology, Ibn Hazm’s The Ring of the Dove, other collections of Arab and Hebrew poetry, and the newly published God’s […]
Recommended Reading: Adam Williams’ Vote for ‘Recent Best Books’
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
CHINA Political and Economic China Shakes The World by James Kynge. Winner in 2007 of the prestigious Best Business Book of the Year Award. A must for anybody who wants to understand China as it is today, and its far reaching and expanding influence into every part of our lives. Beautifully written, it is as […]
Christmas message from Adam Williams
Monday, December 24, 2007
Wishing you a tranquil Christmas and a Happy New Year Adam Williams
Farewell to a Legend – Kevin Sinclair
Monday, December 24, 2007
I lost a friend over the weekend. Kevin Sinclair, author, writer, historian, wine buff and fearless Hong Kong journalist, a legend in his lifetime, who succumbed to cancer at the age of 65. He was my first news editor when I worked on the South China Morning Post. I’ll never forget his advice to me. […]
