The Mandarin Club

Published in 1957 and set contemporaneously, 'The World of Suzie Wong' is a romance story between British artist Robert Lomax and Chinese prostitute Suzie Wong.

Robert is the only resident of the Nam Kok hotel not renting his room by the hour when he meets Suzie at the bar. She becomes his muse and they fall in love. But even in Hong Kong, where many white expatriates have Chinese mistresses, their romance could jeopardize the things they each hold dear.

Suzie Wong has since become a cultural icon, as there are countless bars and restaurants named after her all around the world.

When Moran, Ruyu and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Suspicion fell on all of them. Now grown up, all three are separated by this horrific incident, by time and distance. But when the victim finally dies after a twenty-year illness, long-buried feelings resurface.

A breathtaking page-turner, written in mesmerising prose, Kinder Than Solitude is a mystery that resonates with provocative observations about human nature.

The country of the Great Wall and the Economic Miracle, Lao Tzu and Confucius, China has emerged as a giant on the world stage since the 1990s. However, in China much more is known about the West than what we in the West know about China.

This book will help familiarise and humanise the People's Republic, which many predict is set to become the world's most powerful country.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.

As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed.

Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.