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The Flowers of War

The Flowers of War

by Geling Yan

This powerful novel is now a major film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; House ...

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Authors found: 98
Jan Costin Wagner

Jan Costin Wagner


JAN COSTIN WAGNER was born in 1972 in Langen/Hesse near Frankfurt. After studying German language, literature and history at Frankfurt University, he went on to work as a journalist and freelance writer ...

Per Wahloo

Per Wahloo


Born in 1926, Per Wahlöö was a Swedish writer and journalist who, alongside his own novels, collaborated with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, on the bestselling Martin Beck crime series which are ...

Jehanne Wake

Jehanne Wake


Jehanne Wake is a historian who has written about both royalty and money. Her books include Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Unconventional Daughter and Kleinwort Benson: the History of Two Families ...

Alice Walker

Alice Walker


Alice Walker is the author of the novels, The Color Purple, which won the Pultizer Prize, The Temple of My Familiar, Meridian, The Third Life of Grange Copeland; two collections of short stories, In Love ...

Martin Walker

Martin Walker


Martin Walker is the US bureau chief for the Guardian, a regular commentator for CNN-TV, and a columnist for newspapers in the USA, Europe and Moscow. His pioneering work on Gorbachev and perestroika, ...

Marjorie Wallace

Marjorie Wallace


Marjorie Wallace is the founder and chief executive of Sane mental health charity. Wallace is an award winning writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist. Following her Forgotten Illness campaign ...

Melanie Wallace

Melanie Wallace


Melanie Wallace was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and now lives with her husband in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Paris.

Declan Walsh

Declan Walsh


Declan Walsh has been a foreign correspondent for ten years – five in Africa and the past five in Pakistan. He has written for the Sunday Business Post, where he won the paper’s first Irish national newspaper ...

Authors found: 98