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A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World's Favorite Beverage by Laura C. Martin
RRP: £12.99£8.60As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.A History of Tea tells the compelling story of the rise of tea in Asia and its eventual spread to the West and beyond... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311
RRP: £9.99£7.11NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally... -
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum 9781398510388
RRP: £9.99£6.41'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Freezing Order comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur... -
The Old Man And Me by Jason Wilson 9781913406882 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.85Amsterdam, 2001. A shoot-out in the city's docklands leaves one man grievously injured and a rival drug dealer killed outright. The injured man is Tony Spencer from Coventry. Aka The Old Man. Once a prolific businessman, he is now considered Public... -
China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty by Charles Benn 9780195176650
RRP: £18.49£13.34The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the goldenage of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty,... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Translated by Anton Hur'Violets lavishes attention on the kind of person who often slips through the cracks, unseen or ignored. There is a beauty and a bravery in speaking for small lives' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like YouSouth Korea,... -
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War by Saul David
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life'... -
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai by Rachel Meller
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature'Ian Thomson, author of Primo LeviRachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool,... -
The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything by Christine Gross-Loh
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Sunday Times Top 10 and International Bestseller: Ancient Chinese philosophy for modern life from Harvard's most popular professor The first book of its kind, The Path offers a profound guide to living well through making small changes to our... -
What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History by Yomota Inuhiko 9780231191630
RRP: £22.00£17.36What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that... -
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian
RRP: £18.99£15.65When Gao Wenqian first published this ground-breaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of the China, he offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou... -
Chinese Whispers: A stunning race-against-time serial killer thriller (China Thriller 6) by Peter May
RRP: £9.99£5.13THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more... -
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wert
RRP: £8.99£6.45The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater,... -
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India by Andrew Ollett 9780520296220
RRP: £34.00£26.97At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit... -
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree 9781786073808
RRP: £18.99£13.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
Estonian Textbook: Grammar, Exercises, Conversation by J. Tuldava
RRP: £20.99£18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070547Author J TuldavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner Asian... -
A People`s History of India 5 - Mauryan India by Irfan Habib
RRP: £17.99£14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381624Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 161mm * 14mm -
A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £14.99£9.80A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered-until... -
Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum by Victor Harris
RRP: £29.95£22.13The Japanese sword has long been appreciated both as a weapon and as an object of art. Only in Japanese culture has the sword been developed to such a level of technological excellence and spiritual importance. As a cutting weapon, the fully developed... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon 9780330515795
RRP: £9.99£6.87'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the... -
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99£9.09LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times 'Compelling and poignant' Guardian 'This is travel writing at its best' Observer Internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes... -
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends by Tao Tao Liu
RRP: £14.99£9.80The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture. This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many... -
Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art by Miryam Sas
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of... -
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement with Sri Lanka by Mark Salter
RRP: £25.00£22.43Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil... -
The China Nexus by Benedict Rogers
RRP: £18.95£12.64Benedict Rogers first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools and hospitals... -
Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts by John M. MacKenzie 9780719045783
RRP: £19.99£18.22The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy in recent years. John MacKenzie offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature of Orientalism and brings to the subject... -
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine... -
Elegance of Japanese Art: Edo Rimpa Bird and Flower Painting by Momo Miyazaki 9784756250643
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756250643Author Momo MiyazakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng 9781800750852
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750852Author Yang JishengFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Samurai: A Concise History by Michael Wert
RRP: £14.99£10.95The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater,... -
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis
RRP: £21.95£18.02After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more... -
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple 9780006544159
RRP: £10.99£7.25One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: £18.99£13.61**An Observer Book of the Year**The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the... -
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
RRP: £14.99£10.95The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and reconciliation' Sunday TimesCollingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became... -
Dao De Jing in Clear English: Including a Step-by-Step Translation by Lao Tzu 9781732063808
RRP: £14.95£13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732063808Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Imagin8 LLCPublisher Imagin8 LLCWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor
RRP: £13.99£9.20What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very question. The authors interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to provide a startling insider's view of... -
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter 9781526634306
RRP: £12.99£8.78'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today?... -
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran Xue 9781399406680
RRP: £25.00£17.62The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his...