Memories of expat life in pre-handover Hong Kong.

 Lyrical, wry, amusing, deceptively gentle, Simon Barnes's second novel packs a powerful punch after it has crept up on the reader with the narrator's fond reminiscences of expat life in pre-handover Hong Kong. The hazy and often hilarious memories of work and play in the heartstopping beauty and pulse-racing commercialism of the colony is suddenly flooded by darker memories of tragedy and loss, although Barnes, the most optimistic and delightful of authors, pulls the reader through to a warmly satisfying conclusion.

Hong Kong Belongers

A wonderfully engaging novel about a man and the horse he falls in love with - the idiosyncratic Miss Chance.

 'Get a motorbike. Get laid. The order doesn't matter.'

 When teacher Mark Brown's celebrated wife leaves him, his best friend Callum prescribes a swift return to adolescence.

 Mark does indeed turn back the clock, but not towards motorbikes. He returns to his first passion - horses. Getting back into the swing of riding after twelve years, Mark begins to put together the broken pieces of a story that is full of humour, love and pain.

 He is plunged back into contact with his extraordinary family and other flamboyant influences from his past. And over everything there is the shadow of his tantalising, enigmatic, beautiful and frustrating wife, Morgan.

 Miss Chance is at once delicate and down-to-earth, funny and poignant, a beautifully told narrative that reveals itself with an increasing power and momentum.

Miss Chance

A funny, romantic, evocative novel set against the safari tourism business in East Africa, written by an award-winning journalist.

 After the death of his beloved, bankrupt gambler of a father, Dan Lynch follows his university degree in zoology to a run-down safari camp, where he can work as a trainee guide and, most important, be near George Sorensen, the owner. George is a wildlife genius, but no great businessman, and the camp is threatened by lack of visitors, competition from the much more luxurious set-up across the valley, and corrupt local politicians. In learning about the majestic landscape and fauna of Africa, Dan learns a lot about people - and about himself.

 A beautiful evocation of place, a warmly observant love story, a suspenseful battle against the odds, Rogue Lion Safaris marks the debut of a very bright new voice in fiction.

Hong Kong Belongers

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