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  • Location: China, London, England

The Secret Mandarin

1800s: A disgraced woman. A faraway land. A forbidden love

  • Location: Shanghai

Death of a Red Heroine

1990s: This novel really is quite a guide around the city of Shanghai – its architecture food and the banks of the river.

  • Location: China, Shanghai, Bejing

Peach Blossom Pavilion

Early 1900s: Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China.

  • Location: Beijing (Peking)

The Incarnations

2008 and before: Sweeping between China past and present, THE INCARNATIONS illuminates the cyclical nature of history, and shows how man is condemned to repeat…

  • Location: Hong Kong

The Piano Teacher

1940s, 1950s: Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and ’50s.

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Estella’s Fury

1835: Great Expectations meets Killing Eve

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