Linda Jaivin: 5 books

Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China like nothing you've ever read. This is a book about friendship, music, politics and life on the edge. Linda Jaivin first met Taiwan pop star Hou Dejian in 1981 when she was a journalist in Hong Kong, and his...

Linda Jaivin gets a spanking as she interviews the manager of an S&M club. She steps into a kickboxing ring, and wears a penis for a week to find out how it feels to be a man. 'When I'm writing non-fiction,' she says, 'I tend to get into character.' In her hilarious and outrageous book,...

Reaktion’s new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city’s beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intimate knowledge of each city, these books offer fascinating vignettes on the quintessential and the...

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate:...

Dead Sexy is erotica at its most thrilling. Nicola, writer of the 'Anabelle Says' column for a women's magazine, is cheating on her boyfriend Fox with Johnny B. Wright, a kinky-sex-loving architect who likes to 'christen' his newly constructed buildings. Things become complicated. Johnny is...