22 July 2008
General book news
It’s the publishing event of 2008. More hotly anticipated than the latest Harry Potter, and certainly more entertaining, Jennifer Barclay’s Meeting Mr Kim, or How I went to Korea and learned to love kimchi, is in the shops now, priced at just £7.99.
Jen’s trip to Korea was actually back in 2000, so this little baby [...]
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12 July 2008
General book news
LKL contributor Jennifer Barclay (left) was on Sandi Toksvig’s Excess Baggage this morning, talking about kimchi, modern Korean history, and living and traveling in Korea. She was joined by Julian Appleby, who has recently returned from a stint of English language teaching there.
As ever with these programmes, there was an ulterior motive involved: Jennifer’s book, [...]
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