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Sky Burial by Xinran
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several... -
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name... -
What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran 9780099501527
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British... -
The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze... -
The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China by Xinran Xue
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.12A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it. At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and... -
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran 9780099535751
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the... -
Tongueless by Yee-Wa Lau 9781800812819
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Tongueless is a slow-burn social horror that deftly captures the way human cruelty always returns to destroy its originator.' Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Wai and Ling... -
Secrets and Siblings: The Vanished Lives of China's One Child Policy by Mari Manninen 9781786997333
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.14Thirty-two years ago Mr Li and Mrs Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven children, but six of them are illegal so they cannot... -
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08From the author of India: A Portrait, Patrick French's Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time. Tibet has long... -
The Sacred Clan by Liang Hong 9781838905590
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Wu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from their birthplace on the central plains to fuel China's economic miracle. The ancient trees now sit in... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine For Women: Reflections of the Moon on Water by Xiaolan Zhao
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59In this inspirational book Xiaolan Zhao, internationally-renowned practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), shows us how making simple changes to our diet and lifestyle we can profoundly... -
The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one can care less. Except for a small circle... -
Village Of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the... -
Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan 9781838905064
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juan's companions on the steppes of the Gobi Desert.Writing out of a yurt... -
Souls Left Behind: A WW1 Chinese Labour Corps Novel by Fan Wu 9781838905972
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.44I'm no longer Zhang Delun. I am 58909. We were the Chinese Labour Corps, all 140,000 of us. Sailing eastwards in the final years of the Great War, youth bound to toil behind the trenches of France... -
The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China Yao Emei 9781838905798
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Modern China moves fast, leaving its people trailing behind. The mirage of a picture-perfect home compels some to gamble away the family house, while others live with debts of a shameful past. When... -
The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China Yao Emei 9781838905811
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Modern China moves fast, leaving its people trailing behind. The mirage of a picture-perfect home compels some to gamble away the family house, while others live with debts of a shameful past. When... -
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Still Hot!: 42 Brilliantly Honest Menopause Stories by Kaye Adams 9781785303371 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.26Every menopause has its own story. It's time we told them . . .The menopause. What even is it? One big theme unites Still Hot!'s 42 stories - that, somehow, the world doesn't ready us for this. The... -
Still Hot!: 42 Brilliantly Honest Menopause Stories by Kaye Adams 9781785303371
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Every menopause has its own story. It's time we told them . . .The menopause. What even is it? One big theme unites Still Hot!'s 42 stories - that, somehow, the world doesn't ready us for this. The... -
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize'A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read... -
Loop of Jade Sarah Howe 9780701188696
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There... -
River East, River West: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 by Aube Rey Lescure 9780715655627
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her... -
Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa 9781611097429
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy... -
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains Sing Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops... -
The Book of Records: A Novel by Madeleine Thien 9781324130703
Booksplease Price: $13.60Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts... -
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after...