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Books: The Mandate Of Heaven
Tim Murgatroyd brings his epic trilogy of novels set in medieval China to a stirring end in The Mandate Of Heaven, says STEPHEN LEWIS
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Central China, 1304 AD. Hou-Ming is a city of ghosts on the shores of a giant lake, a vast graveyard for victims slaughtered by invading Mongol hordes.
Amid the ruins, three Chinese children meet and forge a friendship that will change their lives.
So begins The Mandate of Heaven, the third and concluding part of Tim Murgatroyd's powerful trilogy of novels set in medieval China.
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