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One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765386694Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765386632Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 46mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780063031302Author Sue Lynn TanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765377081Author Cixin LiuFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250306067Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

Another laugh-out-loud monster adventure in the Billy and the Mini Monsters chapter book series, in FULL COLOUR, perfect for newly independent readers aged 6+ and fans of Claude and Horrid Henry.Billy and his Mini Monsters are off to Spain! There are...

"[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people." -Pearl S. BuckThe Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, and is one of the earliest and greatest...

Qianmei's cancer is terminal, and everyone except her knows it.She's spent a lifetime Serving the People by penning a slew of complaints to superiors about the failings of colleagues and neighbours, no matter how small. Being confined to bed rest in a...

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the...

'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILD Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His...

'Te-Ping Chen's Land of Big Numbers contains 10 illuminating, sharp stories set in China, penned by a former investigative reporter who worked in Beijing for several years' The Independent'In this magnificent collection of stories, the author and former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781590177259Author Qiu MiaojinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254498Author Cixin LiuImprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 109mm

A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?'Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and...

For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students.She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910559734Author Stella TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Womancraft PublishingPublisher Womancraft PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars.One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him' Ai Weiwei'Fills the reader with aching poignancy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371276Author Eileen ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774083444Author Jiang Zi BeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Via Lactea Ltd.Publisher Via Lactea Ltd.Weight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition:...

Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid northeast, Shenyang, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423778Author Ha JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Imperial China meets Edwardian England in this epic story of loves lost and gained, set during the aftermath of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no man is a match for them. In their small harbour town of Fudi, they practise...

'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung ChangA searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China.Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply moving novel shares the tragic story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378220Author Xi XiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641325Author Zechen XuFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 124mm *...

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationTo tell the truth,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558619074Author Bei TongFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually...

This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts-and music: "A delightful read."-Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913802141Author Ashkan RahgozarFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Markosia Enterprises LtdPublisher Markosia Enterprises LtdDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999671365Author Aven WildsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Knight Errant PressPublisher Knight Errant PressWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Mentoring in academic libraries implies a belief in the future of library employees, systems, the profession, and the principles that libraries uphold. It signifies a commitment to the broader institution and to higher education's values of exploration,...

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of...

for SSA and piano This is a high energy, foot-tap inducing setting of a well-known text. The bluesy melodies, jazzy harmonies, and swung rhythms give the piece a gospel feel and fill you with the infectious urge to boogie along to the music. Powerful...

for TB and piano. I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition, and is underpinned by a gently flowing piano accompaniment. The middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618127009Author Anchee MinPage Count 330Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 366g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958900161Author Apple AnFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Voices Heard Publishing, LLCPublisher Voices Heard Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...