• The Day That Went Missing is a heart-rending story as intensely personal as any tragedy and as universal as loss. It is about how we make sense of what is gone. Most of all, it is an unforgettable act of recovery for a brother.

    Jun 16,
  • The Day That Went Missing is a heart-rending story as intensely personal as any tragedy and as universal as loss. It is about how we make sense of what is gone. Most of all, it is an unforgettable act of recovery for a brother.

    Feb 22,
  • Times Column 19/03/05 The main event this weekend in Hong Kong is the IRB World Cup Sevens.  Less well-known is the fact that over the last few years Hong Kong’s international week of rugby has been developing a fringe, like the Edinburgh arts festival.  While the main tournament can be spectacular, it can also drag as surely as choreographed fireworks and pipers in the castle.  For the full, glorious range of rugby achievement, look to the wonders of the fringe. Wednesday and Thursday at the Hong Kong Indoor Sports Hall saw a three-match series of International Wheelchair rugby, in which the New Zealand Wheel Blacks took on England.  Over the same period at the Hong Kong Football Club, 24 teams

    Mar 19,
  • Entretien à paraître en mars 2005 dans l'annuaire "L'année 2004 dans l'édition", supplément de la revue Ecrire & Editer. Un numéro en vente au Salon du Livre de Paris. Il y a quatre ans, lors de notre première rencontre, Richard Beard vivait dans la campagne anglaise. Il venait de publier son troisième roman, The Cartoonist, récit d'un sabotage rocambolesque dans un parc d'attraction modelé sur Disneyland Paris. Depuis l'artiste a changé d'air. Il s'est envolé pour Tokyo pour y enseigner l'écriture à de futurs ministres japonais. Il n'a pas abandonné le métier pour autant. Après Dry Bones , son quatrième roman, Beard s'est lancer dans la non-fiction. En pleine coupe du Monde de rugby 2003, il sort un petit succès

    Mar 12,