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| "Growing Up with the Impressionists : The Diary of Julie Manet" |
| "Julie Manet the niece of Edouard Manet and the daughter of the most famous female Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot was born in Paris on 14 November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly surprising that with her mother giving all her encouragement Julie would prove to be no exception to the rule At the age of ten Julie began writing her memoirs' but it wasn't until August 1893 at fourteen that Julie began her diary in earnest no neat leather-bound volume with lock and key but just untidy notes scribbled in old exercise books often in pencil the presentation as spontaneous as its contents Her extraordinary diary - newly translated here by an expert on Impressionism - reveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in France's cultural history seen through the youthful and precocious eyes of the youngest member of what was surely the most prominent artistic family of the time"
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| "The Good Son" |
| "Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads 2016 Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize ELLE Best Books of 2015 The Reading Agency Books of 2015 Mickey Donnelly is smart which isn't a good thing in his part of town Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door everyone calls him gay' It doesn't help that his best friend is his little sister Wee Maggie and that everyone knows he loves his Ma more than anything in the world He doesn't think much of his older brother Paddy and really doesn't like his Da He dreams of going to America taking Wee Maggie and Ma with him to get them away from Belfast and Da Mickey realises it's all down to him He has to protect Ma from herself And sometimes you have to be a bad boy to be a good son"
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| "The Many" |
| "Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of 2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast sight unseen When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move but starts to renovate the house for his wife Lauren to join him there When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house they are disturbed and intrigued by the presence of the incomer intrigue that begins to verge on obsession And the longer Timothy stays the more deeply he becomes entangled in the unsettling experience of life in the small village Ethan a fisherman is particularly perturbed by Timothy's arrival but accedes to Timothy's request to take him out to sea They set out along the polluted coastline hauling in weird fish from the contaminated sea catches that are bought in whole and removed from the village Timothy starts to ask questions about the previous resident of his house Perran questions to which he receives only oblique answers and increasing hostility As Timothy forges on despite the villagers' animosity and the code of silence around Perran he starts to question what has brought him to this place and is forced to confront a painful truth The Many is an unsettling tale that explores the impact of loss and the devastation that hits when the foundations on which we rely are swept away"
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| "The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times" |
| "Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award New Faces of Fiction 2017 Observer Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017 The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers Jen Campbell's Most Anticipated Books of 2017' Jean Bookish Thoughts Most Anticipated Releases of 2017' A dark social-realist fairytale spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923 the modern world Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London - a land haunted by the past where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees In a sunlit clearing she meets the funny men' a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Here are the loved and the damaged dark forests and darker histories and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution Xan Brooks' stunning debut is heartbreaking disturbing and redemptive"
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| "The Squeeze" |
| "Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceausescu and 2013 The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh Romania and Oslo and sees this -multi-award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers Marta a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh Mats a Norwegian businessman who longs only to be a good husband and father becomes involved with Marta and both their lives are wrenched - for good or ill - in new directions Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view The Squeeze explores the transactions that take place between men and women Sex money and the desire for love are at its heart"
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| "Birdsong Paperback" |
| "Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present dayThe wartime classic behind the BBC drama starring Eddie RedmayneTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER1910 Amiens Northern France Stephen Wraysford a young Englishman arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family He falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle and the two enter a tempestuous love affair But with the world on the brink of war the relationship falters With his love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front and enters the unimaginable dark world beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land From award-winning writer Sebastian Faulks Birdsong is an exceptionally moving and unforgettable portrait of the ruthlessness of war and the indestructability of love ‘Magnificent – deeply moving’ Sunday TimesAlso available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy seriesThe Girl at the Lion d’OrCharlotte Gray"
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| Waterlog |
| "In 1996 Roger Deakin the late great nature writer set out to swim through the British Isles From the sea from rock pools from rivers and streams tarns lakes lochs ponds lidos swimming pools and spas from fens dykes moats aqueducts waterfalls flooded quarries even canals Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards mistaken for a suicide on Camber sands confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the Hebrides he discovers just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked fully-dressed fellow citizens This is a personal journey a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water"
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| "Alan Turing: The Enigma : The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game" |
| "The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938 as a shy young Cambridge don he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications But his vision went far beyond this achievement Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence However in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment In 1954 aged 41 Alan Turing took his own life"
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| "The Gracekeepers" |
| "A flooded world A floating circus Two women in search of a home North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear keeping a secret that could capsize her life Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean tending the graves of those who die at sea As penance for a terrible mistake she has become a gracekeeper A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life But the waters are treacherous and the tide is against them 'The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging If you love Margaret Atwood you'll love this' Sunday Telegraph'A wondrous read' Stylist'Clever and original' The Times'Truly magical' Heat"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Absolutely on Music : Conversations with Seiji Ozawa" |
| "An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep Before turning his hand to writing he ran a jazz club in Tokyo and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books Now in Absolutely on Music Murakami fulfills a personal dream sitting down with his friend acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa to talk about their shared interest They discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould from record collecting to pop-up orchestras and much more"
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| "I Contain Multitudes : The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes It's an entire world a colony full of life In other words you contain multitudes They sculpt our organs protect us from diseases guide our behaviour and bombard us with their genes They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth In I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems You'll never think about your mind body or preferences in the same way again 'Super-interesting He just keeps imparting one surprising fascinating insight after the next I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best' Bill Gates"
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| "Easternisation : War and Peace in the Asian Century" |
| "'A masterly accountthe best survey of global affairs I have read for some time' Sunday TimesWITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORThe West's domination of world politics is coming to a close The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun Easternisation is the defining trend of our age - the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power This shift to the East is shaping the lives of people all over the world the fate of nations and the great questions of war and peace A troubled but rising China is now challenging America's supremacy and the ambitions of other Asian powers - including Japan North Korea India and Pakistan - have the potential to shake the whole world Meanwhile the West is struggling with economic malaise and political populism the Arab world is in turmoil and Russia longs to reclaim its status as a great power We are at a turning point in history but Easternisation has many decades to run Gideon Rachman offers a road map to the turbulent process that will define the international politics of the twenty-first century"
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| "Lives of Girls and Women" |
| "The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs grazing knees singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan and now she's impatient for more More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances Just like the girls in the movies she wants to get started on real life In her only novel Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations embarrassments glee and bewilderment of adolescence and to the brushes with sex death violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women 'I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet seething feminism'Lena Dunham'Superb'Independent'In Munro's work nothing can be predicted Emotions erupt Preconceptions crumble Surprises proliferate'Margaret Atwood'Exact and unflinching'Guardian 'She is one of the handful of writers some living most dead whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion'Jonathan Franzen"
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| "The Snowman : Harry Hole 7" |
| "NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDESoon the first snow will comeA young boy wakes to find his mother missing Outside he sees her favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman And then he will appear againDetective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years And when the snow is gone When a second woman disappears Harry's worst suspicion is confirmed a serial killer is operating on his home turf he will have taken someone else"
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| "The Swordfish and the Star : Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast" |
| "The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century He catches the stories of a whole community but especially those still working this last frontier the Cornish fishermen These are the dreamers and fighters who every day prepare for battle with the vast grey Atlantic Cornwall and its seas are brought to life mixing drinking and drugs and sea spray moonlit beaches and shattering storms myth and urban myth The result is an arresting tapestry of a place we thought we knew; the precarious reality of life in Cornwall today emerges from behind our idyllic holiday snaps and picture postcards Even the quaint fishermen's pubs on the quay at Newlyn including the Swordfish and its neighbour the Star turn out to be places where squalls can blow up and down again in an instant Based on immersive research and rich with the voices of a cast of remarkable characters this is an eye-opening dramatic poignant account of life on Britain's most dangerous stretch of coast Praise for Hood Rat 'A gripping novelistic immersion' Louis Theroux'A must-read' Owen Jones'Britain's Gomorrah' Independent"
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| "Designing Your Life : Build a Life that Works for You" |
| "Whether you're 20 40 60 or older many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question 'What do I want to be when I grow up?' In Designing Your Life Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want -- and how to get it Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future Now in book form for the first time their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you Using lots of real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing prototyping and mind-mapping you will learn how to build your way forwards step-by-positive-step to a life that's better by a design of your own making Because a well-designed life means a life well-lived"
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| "The Woman Next Door" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb One is black one white Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them Both have recently been widowed Both are in their eighties And both are sworn enemies sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship?Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done Wit charm and playful energy An insightful and fascinating diptych of two women with the history of colonialism and slavery lurking in the background' Herald"
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| "Eileen : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times Observer and Daily Telegraph Fully lives up to the hype A taut psychological thriller rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city In the meantime her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes When the beautiful charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison Eileen is enchanted unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship But soon Eileen's affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination"
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| "Homesick For Another World" |
| "There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment in very different ways but each of them seems destined to be tripped up by their own baser impulses What makes these stories so moving is the emotional balance that Moshfegh achieves - the way she exposes the limitless range of self-deception that human beings can employ while at the same time infusing the grotesque and outrageous with tenderness and compassion The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other and stupid and hurtful but beauty comes from strange sources and the dark energy surging through these stories is oddly and powerfully invigorating One of the most gifted and exciting young writers in America she shows us uncomfortable things and makes us look at them forensically - until we find suddenly that we are really looking at ourselves"
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| Quicksand |
| "In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer However Quicksand is not a book about death but about what it means to be human Mankell writes about love and jealousy courage and fear about what it is like to live with a fatal illness This book is also about why the cave painters 40000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100000 years It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live and about how Henning lived his own life And not least about the great zest for life which came back when he managed to drag himself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck him down into the abyss"
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| "That's Not English : Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us" |
| "In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language You'll discover why Americans give - and take - so many bloody compliments and never ever say shall' (well hardly ever) as well as what the British really mean when they say proper' why they believe it is better to be bright than clever and how the word sorry has at least eight different meanings for them"
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| Judas |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness which sold over 2 million copies worldwideShmuel - a young idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia a woman of enchanting beauty who also lives in the house As the household's tangled tragic past becomes apparent so too does story behind the birth of the state of Israel Journeying back into the deep past Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers"
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| "The Pier Falls" |
| "From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'Superbly gripping' Sunday Times'Terrifically compelling' Guardian'A brilliant collection' Daily MailAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong A seaside pier collapses A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean Another woman is saved from drowning Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve 'The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail and the vivid unsettling clarity they bring to our lives' Sunday Times"
Price: 8.49 |
| "When Breath Becomes Air" |
| "THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an optionUnmissable' New York TimesAt the age of thirty-six on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer One day he was a doctor treating the dying the next he was a patient struggling to live When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book yet his words live on as a guide to us all When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient from a gifted writer who became both"
Price: 7.99 |
| Submission |
| "As the 2022 French Presidential election looms two candidates emerge as favourites Marine Le Pen of the Front National and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National's alarming ascendency Ben Abbes sweeps to power and overnight the country is transformed This proves to be the death knell of French secularism as Islamic law comes into force women are veiled polygamy is encouraged and for our narrator Francois - misanthropic middle-aged and alienated - life is set on a new course Submission is a devastating satire comic and melancholy by turns and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society"
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| Fen |
| "A FOYLES Fiction Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2017 Longlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017 The Fen is a liminal land Real people live their lives here They wrestle with sex and desire with everyday routine But the wild is always close at hand ready to erupt This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse where curious metamorphoses take place where myth and dark magic still linger So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel A house might fall in love with a girl A woman might give birth to a well what?"
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| "The Devil's Star : Harry Hole 5" |
| "36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDENesbo sets a cracking pace A series of spectacular plot twists leads to a thrilling finale'Guardian THE MARK OF THE DEVIL THE SIGN OF A KILLER A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it But Harry is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands Shocking and surprisingexpertly paced'The Times Terrific A stunning twist turns this into a first-rate thriller'Daily Telegraph"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Climate of Fear" |
| "THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene Then the symbol is observed near a second victim who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland How are these deaths and rumours of an Icelandic demon linked to a secretive local society? And what does the mysterious sign mean? Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out"
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| "The Noonday Demon" |
| "WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history as Andrew Solomon narrates brilliantly and terrifyingly his own agonising experience of depression Solomon also portrays the pain of others in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical social biological chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened and afflicted poor rural and urban He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and perhaps most significantly he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Once Upon A Time in the East : A Story of Growing up" |
| "Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday TimesXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven They are strangers to her When she is born in 1973 her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains Aged two and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China censorship underground art Western boyfriends In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain Now after a decade in Europe her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home 'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily Telegraph"
Price: 7.49 |
