Category: Historical Fiction
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Review – Empress Orchid – Anchee Min
Format: Paperback Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication date: 2004 ISBN-13: 9780747568339 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor’s wives. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her…
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Review – Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
Format: Paperback, 428 pages Publisher: Vintage Publication date: February 1999 ISBN-13: 9780679781585 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and…