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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine... -
Katherine by Anchee Min 9780425180235
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.40This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart;... -
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 9780618562039
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618562039Author Anchee MinFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Red Azalea by Anchee Min 9780747596035
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where... -
The Last Empress by Anchee Min 9780547053707
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053707Author Anchee MinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton... -
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min 9780618380435
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618380435Author Anchee MinFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 9780747568339 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.29To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine... -
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min 9780618127009
Booksplease Price: £14.42Apologies 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... -
The Last Empress by Anchee Min 9780747593164 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.78At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face... -
Chinese Propaganda Posters. 45th Ed. Anchee Min 9783754405536
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949... -
Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip 9780007570126
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China. A seductive and evocative debut that opens the doors on life as a Chinese courtesan in the Peach Blossom... -
Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip 9780007570126 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China. A seductive and evocative debut that opens the doors on life as a Chinese courtesan in the Peach Blossom... -
Manchester Minds: A University History of Ideas Stuart Jones 9781526176325
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.84A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest... -
A-Z Manchester Mini Street Atlas by Geographers' A-Z Map Company 9780850399608 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.95Booksplease Price: £2.80This mini sized, 256 page, paperback street atlas features 120 pages of coloured mapping that includes Manchester, Salford, Swinton, Failsworth, Eccles, Droylsden, Urmston and Stretford. The coverage... -
Nanocolloids: A Meeting Point for Scientists and Technologists by Margarita Sanchez Dominguez 9780128015780
RRP: £138.00Booksplease Price: £126.08Nanocolloids: A Meeting Point for Scientists and Technologists presents an easy-to-read approach to current trends in nanoscale colloid chemistry, which offers relatively simple and economically... -
Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis Rachel Broady 9783031733055
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history,... -
Pearl S. Buck's Novels of China and America: The Battle of Life by Rob Hardy 9789811635557
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck's fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck's thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years... -
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction 9780425172254
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.45They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our... -
Pearl S. Buck's Novels of China and America: The Battle of Life by Rob Hardy 9789811635588
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck's fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck's thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years... -
Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories by Su Tong
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.89Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.The mad... -
Victoria's Railway King: Sir Edward Watkin, One of the Victorian Era’s Greatest Entrepreneurs and Visionaries Geoff Scargill 9781526798596
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Edward Watkin was a prominent figure in 19th-century Britain, renowned for his extensive railway projects and his influence on both social and economic initiatives. As chairman of nine British... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the... -
The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel by Weina Dai Randel
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music... 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and...