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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648099 | ISBN 10: 1526648091
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911630647 | ISBN 10: 1911630644
For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace. In this vivid account of her experience of the univer ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899
Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007265121 | ISBN 10: 0007265123
Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there. Despit ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905379439 | ISBN 10: 1905379439
'Sometimes I wonder was I born to be unfortunate; is this my life my destiny? I pray to Biddha that this not be the case. My life seems to be that of a country girl who has spent her days escaping from a tiger, only to be eaten by a crocodile. Mine i ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847390851 | ISBN 10: 1847390854
Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 - Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approachin ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099461937 | ISBN 10: 0099461935
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wen, a Chinese woman who ... more
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