For weeks they went all over London on the little red Honda…

and he’d park outside pubs, proud of his China girl.

For Tom it was a wonderful summer, working as a delivery boy at a Chinese takeaway.

But suddenly, inexplicably, Toni loses his home, his job and his girlfriend May. A squat, then a battered green van, become his refuge, travels through the desperate subcultures dreams about China, each more vivid and shocking than the last.

China Dreams is dazzling, disturbing, lyrical and occasionally fearsome - the story of a young mans struggle to regain his lost love.

“Plot summary cannot capture the strange beauty of this spare and intricately constructed novel.”

------ Guardian

“Smith writes with a vivid simplicity that appears easy, but rarely is. His imagination is keen. The Chinese dream sequences are inventive, sometimes beautiful, more and more troubling.”

------ Scotsman