Kate Whitehead

You’ve probably heard of John Wood, the former Microsoft executive who quit his job to change the world.

Volunteers sailing to frozen continent help conduct penguin and seabird surveys, monitor ecological changes, take seawater samples and look out for whales and other marine species

The chairman of Heywood Hill, a London bookstore, tells Kate Whitehead about the snake in the bath at his Shek O ‘shack’ and playing Scrabble in Myanmar with diplomats sacked by the SLORC.

Networking cuts to the chase with PechaKucha Nights, a quick and fun way to create social connections in an informal setting

Massage, a translation of Chinese novel that won nation’s top literary prize, examines the relationships among blind masseurs and with the sighted

Paul French has published two books this year: City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir and Destination Shanghai