Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal
Lauren Weisberger offers a dazzling look into another sexy
he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China
exploding our expectations of a novel about "identity" and offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life
he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world
All Points North society & culture Waiting charms and startles usAll Points North is part memoir and part excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It's about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in between.