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    My Battle of Hastings

    Xiaolu Guo

    The new memoir in a triptych from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in…

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    Radical: A Life of My Own

    Xiaolu Guo

    The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the…

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    Call Me Ishmaelle

    Xiaolu Guo

    A reimagining of Moby Dick from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor.

    I must work on a ship as a man... Yes, I must seek a new life, more…

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    20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

    Xiaolu Guo

    I felt an urge to conquer this new village.‘Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang - the spirited heroine of Xiaolu Guo’s new novel -…

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    Radical

    Xiaolu Guo

    Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a "voice . . . speaking with full freedom" (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of…

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    A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages)

    Xiaolu Guo

    A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning…

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    Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up

    Xiaolu Guo

    Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless…

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    A Lover’s Discourse

    Xiaolu Guo

    ‘It is hard not to be impressed by Guo’s vivacious talent’ Sunday Times A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations…

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    A Lover’s Discourse

    Xiaolu Guo

    A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home–told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit…

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    A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    Xiaolu Guo

    Drawing on her diaries written upon her initial arrival in London, Guo creates this story to match her own steadily improving English. Freshly humorous, sexy, and poignant, this debut novel…

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    Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

    Xiaolu Guo

    From the author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers comes an original and thoroughly captivating coming-of-age story that follows a bright, impassioned young woman as she rushes headlong into…

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    Lovers in the Age of Indifference

    Xiaolu Guo

    A collection of stories that zooms into tender and surreal moments in the lives of lost souls and lovers, adrift between West and East. It captures the sense of alienation…

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    I Am China

    Xiaolu Guo

    Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter.

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    Radical

    Xiaolu Guo

    Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a "voice . . . speaking with full freedom" (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of…

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    20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

    Xiaolu Guo

    Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won’t be defeated. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pioneer’s…

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    Village of Stone

    Xiaolu Guo

    Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red live on the ground floor of a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is Beijing. The very epitome of disaffected, unfulfilled youth, their…

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    I Am China

    Xiaolu Guo

    Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter.

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    Language: Vintage Minis

    Xiaolu Guo

    Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. But with increasing fluency in…

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    A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    Xiaolu Guo

    Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of…

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    UFO in Her Eyes

    Xiaolu Guo

    Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the…

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    Nine Continents: A Memoir in and Out of China

    Xiaolu Guo

    From one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, Xiaolu Guo’s memoir documents her trajectory from a small fishing village in rural China to life in the West as a…

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    A Lover’s Discourse

    Xiaolu Guo

    A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home–told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit…

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    Radical: A Life of My Own

    Xiaolu Guo

    The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the…

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    The Woman Warrior

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo. A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an…

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    Letters to a Writer of Color

    A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions…

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    Because I am a Girl

    Tim Butcher,Xiaolu Guo,Joanne Harris,Kathy Lette,Henning Mankell

    A collection of writings about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience and changing attitudes towards girls.

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    1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

    Ali Smith,Jeanette Winterson,Kamila Shamsie,Daniel Kehlmann,Ales Steger

    A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world.

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    Not Quite Right For Us

    Xiaolu Guo,Kerry Hudson,Jay Bernard

    Defiant, humorous and insightful, ‘Not Quite Right For Us’ pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, ‘Not Quite Right…

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