Results for: books tagged ‘Far East’
Fragrant Harbour: John Lanchester
'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.'Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek ... More
Nanjing 1937: Ye Zhaoyan
Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historical capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 ... More
My Life as a Fake: Peter Carey
In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his ... More
Certainty: Madeleine Thien
On the anniversary of his wife Gail's unexpected death, Ansel comes together with friends and family to remember her. For Gail's father, Matthew, this gathering forces him to revisit a ... More
The River of Lost Footsteps: Thant Myint-U
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma - through sanctions and ... More
Foreign Mud: Maurice Collis
Foreign Mud is one of the most distinguished of Maurice Collis' works of history. This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant. More
The Polyglots: William Gerhardie
The BBC's Open Book show is the latest to raise the question: 'If you could bring back a forgotten literary treasure, what would it be?' William Boyd picked William Gerhardie's The Polyglots. What do you think? More
In Search of Conrad: Gavin Young
First published in 1991, Gavin Young’s hugely acclaimed In Search of Conrad was joint winner of the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.‘Part-mariner’s log and part-detective story, [In Search of ... More