The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure by Adam Williams

The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure by Adam Williams

A group of foreigners in the provincial Chinese town of Shishan find the status quo upset when the young middle-class Helen Frances arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. But while she tries to resist betraying her solid but dull fiance, the Boxer rebellion threatens them all.

James Clavell left a huge gap in Far Eastern epic storytelling on his death in 1993 and, 10 years on, it looks as if he finally has a fitting successor with the appearance of Williams's novel on the Boxer rebellion of 1900Beijing-based Williams, an Englishman with a long family history in China, convincingly gathers under thunder-clouds, real and implied, his cast of western missionaries, railway builders, Chinese functionaries and a newly arrived English girl. Soon all their lives will be irrevocably changed, including that of conniving Mother Liu and her torture-inflicting son who run the brothel after which the book is named. Williams intermingles romance, peril and murder in the old China and spikes it with emotion and a spirit of adventure. Heavenly pleasure indeed!

The son of a Hong Kong Taipan whose family has been in China since the 1880s, Adam Williams was born and raised in Asia. Adam has undertaken an expedition by camel into the heart of the Taklamaken Desert to seek the lost cities of the Silk Road, and having survived this, competed in the 'Rhino Charge'. He is representative for a Far Eastern trading and services conglomerate, and lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. He is also an OBE.

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ISBN 13	9780340827864
ISBN 10	0340827866
Title	The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
Author	Adam Williams
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2003-08-11
Number of pages	720
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