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  • Location: Kashgar, London

A Lady’s Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

1920s and present day – Kashgar, one of the most remotest cities in China in the 1920s, and the journey told via the pages of…

  • Location: Shanghai

A Loyal Character Dancer

1990s – Second in the Inspector Chen Cao series, this is a police procedural set in Shanghai, featuring a man who as well as a…

  • Location: Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet

2000s: A trip and pilgrimage done in memory of his mum and  “on behalf of the dead”.

  • Location: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan

The Far Pavillions

1870s: M M Kaye takes to an India that you are unlikely to forget. A British man struggles with his identity once he finds out…

  • Location: China, Shanghai

Dreams of Joy

1930s,1950s -1962: A story about relationships within a family, and life in communist China during the ‘Great Leap Forward’. Only an experience that can be…

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The Afterparty

2025: She was your best friend. Now she’s missing. And everyone suspects you.

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