A Bend in the Yellow RiverA BEND IN THE YELLOW RIVER is a sympathetic and intelligent portrait of a once great civilisation in turmoil embracing the ideals of a market economy, but unable, or unwilling to jettison the past; of the effects of the Cultural Revolution, which left a large section of the population deprived of an education, of the devastation of the one child policy. Witty, quirky and touching, this is a stunning view of another way of life.

and its terrible after-effects

Granny Catchprice is at war with her offspring and Benny

they will learn to lay the ghosts of the past to rest

' LORRAINE KELLY

one by one

The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark

love and political conviction converge to persuade Jardine to once again embroil himself in a foreign war

Deep in the plumbing of the financial system

So fasten your seatbelts

The last of these comes in many forms - chocolate

In this blazing cauldron of a book

a heart-wrenching love story and a journey of the spirit