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The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History
This reissue of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of th...
How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution: Penguin Specials
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versail...
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
"Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of th...
China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Wind...
This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best-known avenues. A definitive index ...
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State of Paranoia
North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world’s most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-...
A Shanghai Noir
'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist 'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peac...
Decadent Playground of Old Peking
The Badlands by Paul French - a gripping criminal portrait of pre-communist Peking, from the interntional bestselling author of Midnight in Peking The...
A Modern History
North Korea is a country that continues to make headlines—arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world’s most secretive nuclear power, ...
The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprieto...
The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul French THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A first-rate murder story,...
Shanghai, 1941- In a city under siege unfolds an astonishing story of two men whose lives intertwine in crime and twisted friendship. Viennese Joe Far...
To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts
This all-new work chronicles the experiences of Paul French who, upon leaving the British Army's 21 SAS (V), sought adventure and excitement in C Squa...
The Making of Kim Jong-un
Since his accession to power in 2012, Kim Jong-un has come to personify North Korea in the eyes of the outside world. An object of derision as much as...
Shanghai’s Darkest Day: Penguin Specials
Saturday, August 14, 1937 – that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of ‘violent intensity’. The typhoon passed, but what did s...
How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation
'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity and body image in China as urban lifestyles change and a sizeable middle c...
Saturday, August 14, 1937--that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of "violent intensity." The typhoon passed, but what did strike S...
China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts...
David Starr is eating in a restaurant when one of the patrons dies. David is soon on his way to Mars to try and understand the source of the poisoning...
Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China
Out of sight, out of mind. That's the general reaction to the crucial movement of oil around the world's oceans. Yet this vital supply chain that allo...
A Treatment Approach
Written with clinicians in mind, this book demonstrates the use of Cognitive Behavior Therapy with individuals who are at risk of developing psychosis...
A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis
Designed by experts in the field, this is a step-by-step programme that can be used alongside the therapy process, or as a self help guide for individ...
More Stories from Midnight in Peking (A Penguin Special)
More tales of intrigue in Old Peking from bestselling author Paul French Through portraits of eight residents of Peking’s infamous Badlands district...
Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions and Fast-moving Markets After the Meltdown
By the year 2000, Asians will constitute over half the world's population, including one billion people with purchasing power on-par with their middle...
For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; For the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; A thick s...
Something grotesque is going on in the beautiful game. Money rather than sport now rules the roost. Paul French has talked to leading football pundits...
A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao
Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a ...
Starr sets course for Venus determined to clear his friend's name of treason charges, and in the second novel, he must unravel murders on Mercury...
You're beholding a new world. Aside from an array of brand new compelling facts in spiritual history, there is also an abundance of aha moments right ...