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In this fourth volume of her autobiography and history of China, covering the years from 1949 to 1979, Han Suyi

The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow

Here, chosen by Erwin Wickert from his own diaries, is a marvellous collection of anecdotes, encounters and obs

In this autobiographical work, Solzhenitsyn tells of his ten-year war to outwit Russias rulers and get his work

In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama o

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study

The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes

A description of the authors time as a teacher to the children of Tsar Nicholas II.