Blatant Self-Promotion Disguised as a Christmas List

A few ideas for the reader or old Shanghai/China fan in your life this Christmas….and, with apologies, all include me!

Truly Criminal is the UK Crime Writers’ Association 2015 anthology of true crime writing – including a piece by me on the 1907 murder of Eliza Shapera in Hongkew…

It’s 100 years since Sax Rohmer wrote and published the first Fu Manchu book – this year a bunch of writers, academics and historians (including me) looked back on varios aspects of Rohmer, Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril in Lord of Strange Deaths….

This winter I took a stroll over the rooftops of old Shanghai in the latest issue of the Asia Literary Review – pianos on the rooftop, cocktails, jugglers and working girls, luxury pads and Maoist spy hunters…it’s all Up on the Roof….