David Tang leads spirited panel at Hong Kong book fair

David Tang, speaking at last year's book fair (AFP)

How and what and why do writers write? That was the topic of a panel discussion moderated by David Tang at the Hong Kong Book Fair on Friday. This is the second year that Tang has been asked by the Trade Development Council in Hong Kong to organise an event to promote English books during the fair and this year he invited historian David Starkey, novelist Nicholas Coleridge, food writer Tom Parker Bowles and television and restaurant critic Adrian Gill (better known as AA Gill) to be part of the panel.