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Poppadom Preach by Almas Khan
| GRAHAM RANGER | 21 September 2011
Not a book for the faint hearted, or a story about one! If you can work out the pun in title you will see that the novel is very much a reflection of it.
Poppadom Preach is a witty, original book, set in the 1970s in Bradford, where British-Pakistani origin communities live in areas grouped together and everybody knows everyone else's business.
Dilly, the narrator, lives... [ more ]
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Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court by Michela Fontana
| JONATHAN CHATWIN | 18 September 2011
Though subject to predictable dispute by the Chinese Communist Party, recent figures indicate that Christians in China now outnumber Communist Party members. This startling rise can be attributed to a number of contemporary factors: the increasing internationalism of young Chinese; the (to Western minds, unlikely) association of the Christian faith with modernity; and, perhaps, a desire for narratives of transcendence in a... [ more ]
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