Wild SwansFew books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's

'I have not been able to put The Dictionary People down

She has escaped from a disastrous first marriage but now seems to have recovered from its effect

Nubia sets out to recover it

Rose Thenlif has never felt at home in these elite halls

'Clonk Clonk' plunges us into an even more ancient way of life

Surely none of these realities co-exist

But she fears that

There she learns to harness her occult craft

#1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour

In school many of us learned the dates they died and who followed them

But who were they