Breaking Bamboo HB/PB:Paperback Jacqueline Saphra and Liane Strauss

Jacqueline Saphra and Liane Strauss

Photos from the launch of ‘Frontiers’

Ahmed Saadawi

we see the arc of development in her writing over twenty-five years as she visits and revisits the concerns that are the mainstay of her writing: memory

Breaking Bamboo HB/PB:Paperback Jacqueline Saphra and Liane StraussBreaking Bamboo is the second instalment of a trilogy set in Song and Yuan Dynasty China, charting the trials and adventures of the Yun clan. Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic soldier idolised by the city he defends, the other a humble