Blogs in September 2023

The Leftover Woman 13th September 2023

Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one-child-policy. Fleeing...

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The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands 30th August 2023

Welcome aboard The Great Trans-Siberian Express. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing...

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The Song of the Jade Lily 19th August 2023

A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the “Paris of the East”. Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy...

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The Seventh Passenger 11th July 2023

When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...

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The Opium War 26th June 2023

‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military...

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