When David is offered a job as Assistant Director of Studies in a Prague language school, he does not realise the School's charismatic, but insecure Principal is ignorant of David's appointment and has other plans. And David's difficulties in this faraway land, of which he knew nothing, just ten years after the Velvet Revolution, increase as he tries to come to terms with the people of his new homeland. He meets a comic array of eccentric teachers, with different reasons for being in Prague and realises that they all have alienation in common: searching for an identity away from the land of...

For seven weeks in the summer of 2016, Sam Merry and his wife, Liu Qiong Yao, crossed from Hong Kong airport to sell their first marital home of Dongguan, "The Manchester of China," in rich Guangdong Province, before travelling round China. This book recounts their experiences in an enigmatic country of "capitalism with socialist characteristics," minus freedom. It begins with in-depth analysis, backed by personal experience, of China's bastard capitalism from Deng to Xi Jinping, highlighting worsening problems of tightening dictatorship, pollution, corruption, inequality and oppression since...