VERNER BICKLEY has led culture and language learning projects in seven countries. After demobilisation, he was an Education Officer with the Singapore Government, a British Council Officer in Burma, Indonesia and Japan (where he was also First Secretary in the British Embassy Cultural Department, Tokyo), Head of Language Training for Saudi Arabian Airlines, Full Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and Director of the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Centre in Honolulu. In Hong Kong, he was Assistant Director of Education and Director of the Government's Institute of Language in Education. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of The English Speaking Union (Hong Kong ) and Honorary Research Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.

An experienced actor and radio presenter, Verner Bickley is the reader of the full audio version of The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889). Two of his non-fiction works have received Project Grants from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

His Autobiography , Footfalls in the Memory (2009), is published by The Radcliffe Press in London and New York.  Information at the following web-page. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/browse/book/isbn/9781848850859/?a_aid= Proverse_Hong_Kong

In May 2010, Verner Bickley spoke about Footfalls at The British Council, Singapore and at Select Books. [Photo 2.] (Several chapters speak of Singapore in the 1950s, while he was living and working there.)

BOOK BY VERNER BICKLEY PUBLISHED BY PROVERSE HONG KONG

OLYMPIC GAMES, NON-FICTION

Forward to Beijing! A Guide to the Summer Olympics

HONG KONG FOCUS -- CHAPTER BY VERNER BICKLEY PUBLISHED BY PROVERSE HONG KONG

"Differing Perceptions of Social Reality in Dr Stewart's Court", in A Magistrate's Court in Nineteentth-Century Hong Kong.

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Verner Bickley, author of Footfalls Echo in the Memory, Proverse Co-Publisher and Co-Founder of the Proverse Prize gave a talk, "The Old Empire", at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival,13 March 2011, providing a context for the writing and reading of Memoirs, Biographies and Autobiographies.