Paul French 💙 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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author Midnight in Peking/City of Devils. Columns: Crime & the City @Crimereads; Ultimate China Bookshelf @thechinaproj; Destination Macao @macaocloser
At the Chime of a City Clock
D. J. TaylorPaul French 💙@MartynWaites DJ taylor’s At the Chime of a City Clock was 2010 but is a good 1931
Paperback, 2011
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Rouge Street: Three Novellas
Shuang XuetaoPaul French 💙2/2 @donwinslow – Broken – a great mix of styles but all with Winslow’s usual obsessions of betrayal & corruption Rouge Street – Shuang Xuetao (trans: @JeremyTiang) – 3 novellas on China’s left behind folk https://t.co/MsjREklND8
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. LiPaul French 💙Saw Grace D Li’s Portrait of a Thief (@CoronetBooks ) made @CrimeReads BEST DEBUT CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR: 2022 -so here’s a reup of my @SCMPNews review from May - https://t.co/ojb65p9PZL
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
Tania BraniganPaul French 💙I never find anything about the Cultural Revolution easy reading for obvious reasons & often hesitate to start books on the subject, but @taniabranigan Red Memory (@FaberBooks) was utterly compelling & offers a host of new perspectives. https://t.co/8J7WGqGJDI
Hardcover, 2023
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyPaul French 💙@adrianmckinty Curtis Hoyle (Frank Castle's best friend in Netflix's The Punisher) reads Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian - Punisher S2 ep4 https://t.co/ZhjqreywLL
Paperback, 1992
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
Caroline MooreheadPaul French 💙Caroline Moorehead's excellent bio Edda Mussolini: THe Most Dangerous Woman in Europe is out this week (@PenguinUKBooks) - so todays obscure blogpost is about Edda's fake escape identity as Margaret Smith of Shanghai... https://t.co/n0lstxfI9D https://t.co/7aBrwbUx6r
Paperback, 2023
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Escape
Barbara CartlandPaul French 💙@DrMatthewSweet There’s no escape Matthew - she’s involved too! ‘Lord Mountbatten gave up his regular lunches with Barbara Cartland to plan a military coup against Wilson’ (admittedly considered ‘preposterous’ but was that the lunches or the coup?) / https://t.co/nEDU1X2YyX
Out of stock
The Amur River: Between Russia and China
Colin ThubronPaul French 💙I had a chat with Colin Thubron about the Amur River (Heilongjiang), Russia & China for @ChinaBritain magazine Focus. His book The Amur River: Between Russia & China (@ChattoBooks) is now out in paperback… https://t.co/0qpwf9gXn8
Paperback, 2022
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Myths and Legends of China
E. T. C. WernerPaul French 💙Book #22 @thechinaproj Ultimate Bookshelf - ETC Werner's Myths and Legends of China (1922) is available on both Gutenberg and Internet Archive - https://t.co/TPvxUdwWrH &/or https://t.co/rDljf9jlob
Paperback, 2018
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ninth Building
Zou JingzhiPaul French 💙Great that Zou Jingzhi’s Cultural Revolution-themed vignettes collection Ninth Building (trans: the ridiculously prolific @JeremyTiang) is on the International Booker Prize Longlist 2023 https://t.co/Hz539vAu58
Paperback, 2023
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book