BUZZ have just reprinted my conversation about Art, Memoir and The Books that Read Us with the amazing Holly Sykes that was first published by The Hooghly Review. Thanks to editor Robin Bradbeer for championing not just me but the writers and artists I am fortunate enough to work with and champion. Buzz and The Hooghly Review have reciprocal arrangement where Buzz reprint The Writer’s Gauntlet as Battle of The Wits within 48 hours of The Hooghly Review publishing it.
I’m spending more time conversing with Holly Sykes than her husband these days! This conversation, just published by The Hooghly Review, is called Judging Books Judging Us – Art, Memoir, And The Books That Read Us. It was inspired by Holly’s substack, Beyond the Book Cover firing rockets into my neurodivergent brain and getting me unhealthily fixated on the concept of books reading us. There is treatment, according to my psychiatrist, but it’ll cost me…
https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-and-holly-sykes-go-beyond-the-book-cover/
My other conversation with Holly about mapping loss and loneliness in a crowded city was one of two columns published by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal on Saturday and can be found here.
The Writer’s Gauntlet will be back in The Hooghly Review on Thursday (with a Friday reprint in Buzz.) Who will be the latest intrepid writer to brave my Gauntlet? This gets harder and harder to decide as there are now a mind-boggling number of subs to choose from!
Thanks to Ankit, co-editor of The Hooghly Review, for the kind comment on X.
Join me and the women with WiPS for another fizz-fuelled fiesta celebrating women’s voices! The Women in Publishing Society‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2026 launch of Imprint 24 takes place at the FCC 4 March from 7-10pm! Tickets include two drinks, a delicious spread of complimentary canapés, free copies of the anthology, readings, speeches and performances, amid the legendary hospitality of the FCC!
My contributions to this year’s anthology are a couple of musings and a delulu doodle. While my pieces strike a slightly more reflective note than usual, I’ll be performing a humorous piece from an upcoming episode of Sharp Pains at the event by kind invitation of editor Carol Dyer, In Bed with Sadie. Don’t miss it!!!
https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-party-imprint-24
Recent WiPS HK lit fest events!
https://www.hkwips.com/2024/imprint-22-launch-party
https://www.hkwips.com/2023/imprint-comes-of-age-at-the-fcc
https://www.hkwips.com/2025/imprint-23-is-released-in-style-at-the-fcc
Nearly 14 years after his tragic accident, aged 31, one of my besties and partners in documentary crime Johnny Lambe has been immortalized in a memoir by his magnificent mother.
Thank you, Mona Lambe, for the laughter and the tears today, as I devoured your memoir of Johnny in one greedy sitting. You are incredible to have been able to set your own grief aside and to have woven your stories together in such a unique and clever way. You have created an extraordinary, breathtakingly honest, and often very funny celebration of his life and soul. I feel more blessed than ever to have shared a seminal chapter of my life with such a rare gift of a friend who kept me incapacitated with laughter and inspired by his presence. His infectious humor, joie d’vivre, passion, talent and spirit live on through you and this book.
Johnny touched so many lives. His life was packed with adventures and I am so grateful to have shared my most memorable ones with him. Johnny’s last film was Sailing Miss Sadie, in which we sailed to Venezuela with three young offenders from The Prince’s Trust.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Johnny-Lambe-Mona-Lambe/9780957601512
