Northern Girls explores the inner lives of a generation of young, rural Chinese women who embark on life-changing journeys in the search of something better. Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy village far from China's headlong rush towards development. A scandalous love affair launches the buxom but unworldly sixteen-year-old on a journey to the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. ...(展开全部)

NORTHERN GIRLS tells the story of Qian Xiaohong, a young girl who moves from her rural Hunan countryside home to make a new life in the bustling boomtown of Shenzhen. A beautiful coming of age novel, Northern Girls uncovers the experiences of young women who are a large part of China’s rural-urban population migration, leaving on a search for opportunity. Above all else, Northe...(展开全部)

NORTHERN GIRLS tells the story of Qian Xiaohong, a young girl who moves from her rural Hunan countryside home to make a new life in the bustling boomtown of Shenzhen. A beautiful coming of age novel, Northern Girls uncovers the experiences of young women who are a large part of China’s rural-urban population migration, leaving on a search for opportunity. Above all else, Northe...(展开全部)

Northern Girls explores the inner lives of a generation of young, rural Chinese women who embark on life-changing journeys in the search of something better. Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy village far from China's headlong rush towards development. A scandalous love affair launches the buxom but unworldly sixteen-year-old on a journey to the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. ...(展开全部)

Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up ...(展开全部)

Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world's greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and fami

Caryl Churchill: 'A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting' Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman 'Ms Churchill is one of our best writers...her play is brilliantly conceived with consider...(展开全部)

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel...(展开全部)