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Paul French 💙 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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author Midnight in Peking/City of Devils. Columns: Crime & the City @Crimereads; Ultimate China Bookshelf @thechinaproj; Destination Macao @macaocloser

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Book Cover for: At the Chime of a City Clock, D. J. Taylor

At the Chime of a City Clock

D. J. Taylor
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@MartynWaites DJ taylor’s At the Chime of a City Clock was 2010 but is a good 1931

Paperback, 2011

$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rouge Street: Three Novellas, Shuang Xuetao

Rouge Street: Three Novellas

Shuang Xuetao
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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

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Portrait of a Thief, Grace D. Li

Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li
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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

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, Tania Branigan

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan
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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

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy
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@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

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe, Caroline Moorehead

Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

Caroline Moorehead
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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

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Amur River: Between Russia and China, Colin Thubron

The Amur River: Between Russia and China

Colin Thubron
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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

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Myths and Legends of China, E. T. C. Werner

Myths and Legends of China

E. T. C. Werner
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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

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick
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Barbara Demick’s Nothing To Envy shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners….here on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ Front Row… https://t.co/JWAOTvyNyb

Paperback, 2010

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi

Ninth Building

Zou Jingzhi
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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

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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