James Palmer

James Palmer was born in 1978. In 2003 he won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing. He has worked with Daoist and Buddhist groups in China and Mongolia on environmental issues, and now lives in Beijing. His first book, The Bloody White Baron, was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Books by James Palmer

The Death of Mao

James Palmer

China is a superpower. A generation ago, it was a basket case. This book is about the moment when everything changed. As a terrified country waited for Mao's death ...

The Bloody White Baron

James Palmer

Twentieth-century history has thrown up a few sinister characters stranger and more cruel than Baron Ungern-Sternberg, but not many, and only he conquered a country with a cavalry army - the ...