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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist
£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662279 | ISBN 10: 1526662272
There was only one thing on her mind. 'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, qui ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529057683 | ISBN 10: 152905768x
The Prize-Winning International Bestseller 'I can't help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to.' Ch ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474621687 | ISBN 10: 1474621686
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241396070 | ISBN 10: 0241396077
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after ho ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471183836 | ISBN 10: 1471183831
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349143354 | ISBN 10: 0349143358
Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship. This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from poverty to running a successful construction co ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846275975 | ISBN 10: 1846275970
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnecte ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349142104 | ISBN 10: 0349142106
This is the story of a dog named Scraggly. Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's house. Scraggly has dreams and aspirations just like the rest of us. But each w ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846276033 | ISBN 10: 1846276039
Winner: The Man Booker International Prize 2016 Translated by Deborah Smith Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780745343 | ISBN 10: 1780745346
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780753828182 | ISBN 10: 0753828189
Combining a unique setting with universal themes, Please Look After Mother is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love. Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has l ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122977 | ISBN 10: 0349122970
June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from wa ... more
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