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- Location(s): Shanghai
Communist China is a compelling setting, political intrigues, and Party dynamics, China of the 1990s – and its food, culture and people. Inspector Chen and Detective Yu are likable and rounded characters, who persue their cases their cramped living...
- Location(s): China, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps...
- Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...
- Location(s): Chengdu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Newly graduated photography student Lori Maddox spends the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler,...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Norwegian expatriate Jakob Odergaard rules his successful furniture corporation with a ruthlessness and egotism that draws comment even in the merciless cut and thrust of the Hong Kong business world. His baleful influence warps the lives of all around...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Hong Kong is teetering on the edge of anarchy. Violent street battles are raging between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. He’s retired, but it was purely involuntary. It seems his...
- Location(s): Macau (Macao)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days...
The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
- Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...
- Location(s): Guangdong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change. Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Mei, the protagonist, is an investigator. A friend of her mother, known as ‘Uncle Chen’, asks her to track down a Han-dynasty jade that vanished from a museum during the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. Was the jade...
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