Author: Frank Dikotter

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of The Peoples Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winn...

A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year Brilliant NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR Enlightening and a good read SPECTATOR...

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with gre...

The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter For anyone who...