Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Shortest History of China
"‘A fascinating, enormously dynamic portrait of a superpower. Essential reading’ JULIA LOVELL ‘A fast-paced and witty survey of China’s past ... Iconoclastic, informative and more attentive to female figures than comparable works’ JEFFREY WASSERSTROM ‘Succinct, lucid and with a keen eye for detail, this slim book is an indispensable primer on China’ LOUISA LIM A PACY HISTORY OF CHINA THAT CAN BE READ IN AN AFTERNOON, BUT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR PERSPECTIVE FOR A LIFETIME. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has inf luenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese history is sprawling...
A Most Immoral Woman
He was our man in Peking. She was ... everybody's. The ravishing new novel from the author of the bestselling EAT ME. 'A most engaging, clever and memorable romp' Sydney Morning Herald He was our man in Peking. She was ... everybody's. 1904. Forty-two-year-old, handsome and influential Australian G.E. Morrison, Peking correspondent for tHE tIMES of London, considered the most eligible Western bachelor in China has yet to meet his match. But one night he encounters Mae Perkins, the ravishing daughter of a California millionaire and a turbulent affair begins. War, meanwhile, has broken out between Russia and Japan for domination over northeast China. Morrison's colleague Lionel James has an id...
Eat Me
Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is an academic and Philippa is writing a novel. The best of friends, they meet at fashionable cafes and restaurants to eye the passing talent and to swap stories about their wilder sexual encounters. A debut novel.
Papers of Linda Jaivin
Research material, drafts and correspondence relating to Jaivin's writing projects, and some published editions of books.
Confessions of an S & M Virgin
In her hilarious and outrageous book, Linda Jaivin gets a spanking as she interviews the manager of an S&M club and wears a penis for a week to find out how it feels to be a man. She explores the secretive world of Chinese gays and lesbians, and gives an astonishing account of what happened the night the tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square.
Dead Sexy
When Johnny B. Wright is found dead, naked and handcuffed, with one of Nicola's favourite scarves tied around his neck, things get complicated. Nicola, writer of the 'Anabelle Says' column for a women's magazine, is cheating on her boyfriend Fox with Johnny, a kinky-sex-loving architect who likes to 'christen' his newly constructed buildings.
Beijing
Reaktion’s new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city’s beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intimate knowledge of each city, these books offer fascinating vignettes on the quintessential and the quirky. In the first book of the series, Linda Jaivin explores a city at the heart of one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the capital of its newest superpower—Beijing. In China’s central city, Jaivin finds thousands of years of history dating back to our ancestors, a story that includes dynastic empires, sieges, massacres, rebellions, and political spectacle. Recounting the lively hi...
The Girl With the Movie Star Smile
Beijing, 1984, and young proofreader Ding is in all kinds of trouble ... A sharp, funny novel about one of the most turbulent, and most hopeful, periods of China's recent history.
Eat Me
In this eye-popping first novel--a runaway best-seller in Australia--Linda Jaivin invites readers to partake of a lusty banquet of conversations about that hottest topic of all--sex. The talk is served up in various trendy cafes by a foursome of bright, successful women: Julia, a photographer with a penchant for Peking duck and acrobatic men; Chantal, a fashion magazine editor, whose sexual exploits give new meaning to "mixing and matching"; Helen, a feminist scholar, whose wholesome demeanor belies her exotic sexual fantasies; and Philippa, a writer who appears to be taking rather close notes on her friends' raunchy tales. With its layering of stories within stories, "Eat Me is as provocative in structure as it is potent in detail. Is it a literary romp? A work of pornography? A devastating social satire? One thing is clear: This outspoken, outrageous, utterly irresistible debut is destined to be the most talked about book of the year.
Eat Me: Text Classics
First published in 1995, Eat Me became an instant international bestseller, and caused a scandal in the US. Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is a feminist academic and Philippa is a writer. These four friends haunt the cafes of inner-city Sydney, eyeing the passing talent and swapping outlandish tales. Sexy, intelligent, predatory, they are women of their time. But can we believe their wild and wicked descriptions of their erotic exploits? Linda Jaivin's sizzling debut plays havoc with our ideas of truth, sex and power. With a new introduction by Krissy Kneen, author of Affection and Triptych. Linda Jaivin is the author of eight books. These include five novel...
