Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 - A Self-Portrait (Ladany Laszlo)(Paperback / softback)

Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 - A Self-Portrait (Ladany Laszlo)(Paperback / softback)

This is essentially the story of the Chinese Communist Party in its own

Blue Self-Portrait (Lefebvre Noemi)(Paperback / softback)

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, 'Blue Self-Portrait' unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us, addressing past

Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party (Beckett Francis)(Paperback)

A history of the British left and its Communist

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Hall James)(Paperback)

Hall's intelligent and vivid account shows how artists' depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing tradition that reaches back centuries. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval mirror craze; the explosion of the genre during the Renaissance; the confessional

Mao (Spence Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

A biography that penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. Written by 'One of the greatest historians of China' Chris

Party - The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (McGregor Richard)(Paperback / softback)

How has the Party merged Marx, Mao and the market to create a global superpower? And what does this mean for the world? This book delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and

Bendtner: Both Sides - The Bestselling Autobiography (Bendtner Nicklas)(Paperback / softback)

Utterly compelling and brutally honest self-portrait of a troubled Premier League

War and War (Krasznahorkai Laszlo)(Paperback / softback)

One of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's most loved books, published in the UK for the first

Concert (Kadare Ismail)(Paperback / softback)

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and

Self-Portrait in Black and White - Unlearning Race (Williams Thomas Chatterton)(Paperback / softback)

A captivating, controversial interrogation of race and identity from one of America's most brilliant cultural

RAW - My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Hawkins Lamont U-God)(Paperback / softback)

Part social history, part confessional memoir, U-God's intimate portrait of his life - and those of his Wu-Tang brothers - is a brave and unfiltered account of escaping poverty to transform the New York hip-hop scene

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (Ashbery John)(Paperback / softback)

A book of poems by the world's celebrated

Story of China - A portrait of a civilisation and its people (Wood Michael)(Paperback / softback)

China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest

Seek - Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond (Johnson Denis)(Paperback / softback)

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, 'Seek' is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. His travels take him from hippy conventions to war-torn

Our Eric: A Portrait of Eric Portman (Owens Andy)(Paperback / softback)

China Mountain Zhang (McHugh Maureen F.)(Paperback / softback)

Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a

Dai Greatcoat - A Self-Portrait of David Jones in his Letters (Jones David)(Paperback / softback)

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last fifty years of his life, editing and arranging Jones' correspondence with a linking commentary to form a biographical

Unfinished Portrait (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning novel of death and

Unfinished Portrait (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning novel of death and

Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life (Finnegan William)(Paperback / softback)

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Wagner Jan)(Paperback / softback)

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme ''Speech and Silence.'' Poet, essayist, translator of Anglo-American poetry, Jan Wagner has published seven collections of poetry and his works

Poetics of Work (Lefebvre Noemi)(Paperback / softback)

In this new novel by the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait, a poet-narrator existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich muddles through a national state of emergency. Their ten lessons to today's young poets form a blistering treatise on survival

Self-Portrait (Ray Man)(Paperback / softback)

In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s,

My Life (Clinton President Bill)(Paperback / softback)

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the entire world