Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all...

Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION

Sue Brierley

Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting. In this...