Chris West

This article is about the non-fiction, crime and general fiction writer. For the Catholic author, see Christopher West.

Chris West (born 1954) is a British writer. He writes business books under this name. Writing as Christopher West he is author of the China Quartet, four mysteries which, back in the 1990s, were among the first crime novels to be set in the contemporary People's Republic of China.^{[citation needed]}

After studying economics and philosophy at the London School of Economics, West travelled in China, leading to his first book, Journey to the Middle Kingdom in 1991. Following that, he wrote the four four crime novels featuring Wang Anzhuang, a mid-ranking detective in the Beijing Xing Zhen Ke (Criminal Investigation Department) and his wife, Rosina Lin, a nurse at the Capital Hospital.

More recently, West has concentrated on co-authoring books aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses, the first of which was The Beermat Entrepreneur,^[1] co-authored with entrepreneur and speaker Mike Southon^[2]. Southon and West were both members of The Oxcentrics, an Oxford-based Dixieland jazz band, in which West played the drums^[3]. West's most recent co-authored work is Think like an Entrepreneur with entrepreneur Robbie Steinhouse.

As a solo author he has written Marketing on a Beermat and Perfect Written English, a guide to good, clear writing.

West is married with one daughter and lives near Cambridge.

Books

• Journey to the Middle Kingdom, Simon and Schuster 1991. Allison and Busby, 2000.
• Death of a Blue Lantern, Collins Crime 1994, Allison and Busby 1999 and 2008.
• Death on Black Dragon River, Collins Crime 1995
• Red Mandarin, Collins Crime 1997
• The Third Messiah Allison and Busby 2000
• The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn a Good Idea into a Great Business, Mike Southon and Chris West. Prentice Hall, 2002. (Reissued several times.)^[4]
• The Boardroom Entrepreneur, Mike Southon and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2005.^[5]
• Sales on a Beermat, Mike Southon and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2005.^[5]
• Finance on a Beermat, Stephen King, Jeff Macklin and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2006.^[5]
• Marketing on a Beermat, Random House 2008
• Perfect Written English, Random House 2008
• Think like an Entrepreneur, Robbie Steinhouse and Chris West, Prentice Hall, 2008.

References

1. ^ Sydney Hazelton, Review: The Beermat Entrepreneur by Mike Southon and Chris West, ReviewStream.com.
2. ^ Mike Southon — Life Story, Beermat.biz.
3. ^ "The Oxcentrics". Internet Archive. 27 June 2006. http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20071201104837/http://www.jpbowen.com/oxcentrics/. Retrieved May 06, 2011. 
4. ^ Chris West: Bibliography, Amazon.com.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Author details for Mike Southon & Chris West, Random House.

External links

• Chris West author website
• NLP training course in London co-designed by Chris West

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Name	West, Chris
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Short description	Author
Date of birth	1954
Place of birth	United Kingdom
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