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Peter HesslerRRP: £12.99
‘Memorable… One of [China’s] most astute and sensitive foreign observers’ Financial Times’Compassionate… full of warmth’ GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China’s first boom …
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‘Memorable… One of [China’s] most astute and sensitive foreign observers’ Financial Times’Compassionate… full of warmth’ GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China’s first boom …
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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick’Ingenious … touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking.’ Guardian’If you’re itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell … try this.’ The Times_______________In …
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The transformation of modern China told through the eyes of its dissident artists and writers.The Phoenix Years tells the riveting story of China’s rise from economic ruin to global giant in the four …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________’Entertaining and well-paced… Platt’s compelli …
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When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in …
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From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan, comes a deliciously fun story of family, fortune, and f …
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During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens – perhaps hundreds – of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in ‘Invitation Only Zones’, high-security detention-centre …
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‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …
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In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …
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Taro is a boy from a coastal village in rural Japan, fated to become a fisherman like his father. But in just one night, Taro’s world is turned upside down – and his destiny is changed forever.Skilled …
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