Joanne Elliott Book order

CHINA, THE EPIC LONG MARCH AND MAO'S REVOLUTION A love story both historical and intimate peopled by fascinating characters Julia Harrison, rich, beautiful and privileged, wife of a U.S. Congressman. What is she doing in Maoist China? Is she to be rescued or investigated? Jen Chi-man, was born in the wilderness, orphaned by war, reared in the Red Army and sent to America to become a scientist. He returns to a world he no longer knows. Catherine Lee, a Chinese-American doctor from Brooklyn, imbued with a romantic love of the motherland she has never seen, longing to "serve the people". In their stories, we get glimpses of Mao, his power-hungry wife, foreign-educated Zhou Enlai and Madame Sun, revered widow of the founder of modern China, a committed Communist who lives in a mansion.

'My Husband' combines fifteenth century imagery with themes of morality and forgiveness in a historical novel that takes inspiration from a true story of love and murder. It explores the life of Nicholas Brome, a Warwickshire lord with a violent, blood-soaked past, through the soul-searching of his third wife and widow, Lettice Catesby.

I wish I had these books when I started at university. So many relevant examples are worked through, and the solutions to the examples are descriptive instead of just being a simple answer, which makes learning much easier. Michelle Rasmussen, University of Roskilde