The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (Wang Anyi)(Paperback)

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (Wang Anyi)(Paperback)

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the

Song of Sorrow (Salisbury Melinda)(Paperback / softback)

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (Ninh Bao)(Paperback)

The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm--a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Heart-wrenching, fragmented, raw, former North Vietnamese solder Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his

Sweet Sorrow (Nicholls David)(Paperback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.' Observer'Triumph ... the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending.' The Sunday Times 'Pitch perfect ... Exquisite ... Terrific

Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome (King Crystal)(Paperback)

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Massachusetts Book Award 'Must Read' Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, this 'addictively readable first novel' (Kirkus Reviews) features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and

The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (Wei Wang)(Paperback)

Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He

The Everlasting Man (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

Complete edition of The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. Find out why in this complete

Philipovna, Volume 20: Daughter of Sorrow (Gal Valentina)(Paperback)

Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on my mother's surviving the holodomor the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on her dead sister's

Kings of Shanghai (Kaufman Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Kings of Shanghai is at once the intimate story of two families and a sweeping account of how modern Shanghai was

Global Shanghai Remade: The Rise of Pudong New Area (Hu Richard)(Paperback)

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to shed light on contemporary globalisation and China's integration with the world since the late 20th century. Unpacking the rise of Pudong in the context

Branwell: A Novel of the Bront Brother (Martin Douglas A.)(Paperback)

For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, this genre-bending exploration of the tragic figure of Branwell Brontë and the dismal, dazzling landscape that inspired his sisters to greatness is now available in a new edition with an introduction by Darcey

A Song Everlasting (Jin Ha)(Pevná vazba)

From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at

Song of the West (Roberts Nora)(Paperback / softback)

A classic romance novel from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest

Stargazing (Wang Jen)(Paperback)

Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Real Friends and El Deafo, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang. Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American

The Tower of Fools (Sapkowski Andrzej)(Paperback)

'A fantastic novel that any fan of The Witcher will instantly appreciate.' --The Gamer Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series has become a fantasy phenomenon, finding millions of fans worldwide and inspiring the hit Netflix show and video games. Now the bestselling author introduces readers to a new

Survivor Song (Tremblay Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of

The Everlasting Man (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of civilization, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. Originally published in 1925, it is to some extent a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development

Black And Blue (Rankin Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Special edition of the award-winning Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES - includes exclusive extra material. 'Britain's best crime novelist' DAILY

Song of the Lark (Cather Willa)(Paperback / softback)

The second novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from

How to Write a Song on the Piano (James Allison)(Paperback)

(Willis). Designed for budding songwriters of any age, this workbook requires only a minimal knowledge of the piano. Written so it is easy to use with or without a teacher, singer/songwriter Allison James carefully guides the beginning songwriter through the process of writing a complete song with

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Millerová

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listGreece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles

Laughing Lost in the Mountains (Wei Wang)(Paperback)

Wang Wei was one of the most celebrated poets of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907). An influential painter and practitioner of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, many of his poems contain concise and evocative descriptions of nature whose elegant minimalism offers subtle expression of a transcendence from everyday

Behaviour of Love (Reeves Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

The brilliant new novel from the author of Work Like Any Other, longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker

Carceral Capitalism (Wang Jackie)(Paperback)

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the