Patrick French

Patrick French is a writer and historian, born in England in 1966. He is the author of Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division , which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land and, most recently, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Patrick has also recently created the incredible new website: www.theindiasite.com.

Tibet, Tibet A Personal History of a Lost Land Patrick French Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a mystical mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Patrick French set out to discover the truth, and his extraordinary account has been widely acclaimed. Travelling... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/01/2011 Lovereading Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)

India A Portrait Patrick French Presents social, political and economic history of India. Examining the cultural foundations that made India's accelerated transformation from socialist economy to capitalist powerhouse possible, this title provides a picture of what it is like to live at a time when... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/01/2011 Lovereading Price: £18.75 - Saving £6.25 (25%)

India A Portrait Patrick French One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. What is the real nature of this rapid change, and where are its roots? India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from the... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012 Lovereading Price: £8.24 - Saving £2.75 (25%)