The Elm Tree (Volume 2) Robert Macfarlane

The Elm Tree (Volume 2) Robert MacfarlaneMuch of northern China is now under Japanese control. In Beiping, food prices are soaring, the people are going hungry and the streets are teeming with refugees. Chiang Kai sheks Kuomintang army are holding out in central and southwestern China, unable to land a serious blow on the enemy and squandering precious time fighting the Communists. Qi Yuexuan, the sole scion of a distinguished family, has forsworn his life of indolence to lead a small band

The stories are told in a number of voices: middle-aged way leave officer Frank

vibrant and immensely accessible

Roger Robinson recently came to the attention of UK audiences in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten

his son-in-law Chenglong is prospering

resting wherever he could find a place

Publication date 31/10/2022

Through what sluices has it swept

the other explores the cruelties and intensities of a sexual relationship in a post-colonial world

Jacqueline Saphra and Liane Strauss

from Jacob Sam-La Rose’s heartfelt verse

The Blue Boar

racism and the endless wars of the twenty-first century