#histbookchat #sinology My choice this week is A Murder in Yunnan by David Leffman from Blacksmith Books - it's 1875 and a British diplomat, Augustus Raymond Margary, is murdered on the remote China-Burma border. A bad luck encounter with bandits, or were complex geopolitics involved?

don't leave the door open when you're having a bath

#histbookchat #sinology new release!! Laughter, Humor (spelt wrong), & Comedy in Middle Period China, 600-1300 ed. by Alexei K. Ditter & Xiao Rao (2026) open access which is great coz £155 😬 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

#histbookchat Latest read!! Geologist Bob Boyd has lost his memory in an accident and there are people who want it to remain that way!! 😲 #thriller #amreading Landslide by Desmond Bagley (1967) #BookSky 📚💜

#histbookchat #sinology I was thinking about those people in HK detained for selling the wrong kind of book, so this week's choice is Treason By The Book by Jonathan Spence - my lovely 1st ed from 2001 - which tells the story of the Emperor Yongzheng & a 'police state' from long ago

#histbookchat #sinology #PhotoFriday my pick this week is a great collection of essays on China from Perry Link : The Anaconda in the Chandelier (2025)

My latest piece for The Perfect Voice written under the ever-watchful gaze of @shoumojitb.bsky.social on the history of surveillance in China...👀 #histbookchat #sinology www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-par...

Another thriller to help me cope with the heat!! LOL #histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜A hijacked plane and a desperate fight for survival in the bitter cold of the Andes - High Citadel (1965) #fiction

Since it's the US's 250th birthday tomorrow for #PhotoFriday #histbookchat I thought I'd post one of my favourite biographies - many bios of Abe but very few about Jeff Davis. Thankfully, in all 800 pages + of this book, William J. Cooper Jr writes like an angel. Amazing book!

new book from Yuri Pines! Out 30th June!! #histbookchat #sinology

some fiction to cope with the heat today #histbookchat thought I should take myself off for a thrilling ride across the ice fields of Iceland!! Running Blind by Desmond Bagley (1970) #BookSky 📚💜

But if you are looking for something more substantial, the incredible news is that Christian Lamouroux's new 800 page history of the Song (pubbed 2022) has been translated into English by Patricia Buckley Ebrey & Charles Hartman & is set for release in March 2027! Hurrah! 3/3

Lots of great essays from all the great and the good of Song Dynasty studies, from first glance all written to be extremely accessible - so a nice easy reference and read 2/3

New arrival!! The Cambridge Companion to Song China edited by Cong Ellen Zhang (2026) from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who has more Chinese history books than you can shake a shaman's rattle at! #histbookchat #sinology 1/3

#histbookchat recent release from @universitypress.cambridge.org for those who are fascinated by bullets!!

#histbookchat #photofriday my offering today is an old-school thriller from 1966 - great fun!!

#histbookchat #law #sinology #PhotoFriday A new arrival for this week!! Very happy to get hold of a copy of the recently published Chinese Law by @donaldcclarke.bsky.social

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Broken China Dream by Minxin Pei (2026) from @princetonupress.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who has broken many a young man's dream

if you want to read further, this is a great book by Sam Hawley

Wasn't sure what to post today for #PhotoFriday #histbookchat but I was inspired by @halma.bsky.social to show off some post-WW2 Indian history. This book about the Sino-Indian border war of 1962 has been on the shelf for years and I am yet to get to it! China's India War by Bertil Lintner (2018)

#histbookchat #PhotoFriday Writing a book review at the moment (not of this book) and had to refer back to Judith Shapiro's classic from 2001 - always liked the cover of this book. Reminds me of some of yours... 😂@milhistreader.bsky.social

#histbookchat #sinology many thanks to editor extraordinaire @shoumojitb.bsky.social and The Perfect Voice, Mumbai for letting me write on China and the environment: The Greening of China www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gre...

Bit late with #PhotoFriday #histbookchat Finally starting Marine Raider by Stephen Platt (2025)! #sinology

Exciting new arrival!! To Rule All Under Heaven (2025) by Andrew Seth Meyer as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who really believes that she rules all under Heaven! 😮 #sinology #histbookchat

#histbookchat About to write a piece on ecology soon and I'm thinking of Rachel Carson whose book, Silent Spring (1962), is considered by David Attenborough to have changed the scientific community the most after The Origin of Species - this #biography from 1997, Linda Lear

#histbookchat Research for novel!! By Ma Tianjie (2025) Hoping to write a review for @asiancha.bsky.social in a couple of weeks!!

#histbookchat I've been slowly working my way through the Alexander Kent Richard Bolitho novels. This is book 6 (in chronological order) - Sloop of War (1969) - it is 1778 and the Sparrow is just off the coast of America 😮 Fantastic stuff!! #BookSky 📚💜

Latest arrival!! Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five & the Making of The Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social code name 'Chocolate Fairy' #spy #histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜

#histbookchat My aunt, who lived in Italy for years, thought I needed to read more Italian literature so she sent me this!! Looks like lots of fun!

#histbookchat #sinology Latest arrival!! The Wall Dancers by Yi-Ling Liu (2026) @yilingliu95.bsky.social from @ithakapress.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who, if all the old Irish folk tales are true, does a little dance every time she sells a book...