Thailand’s pristine and remote Ko Phi Phi island attracts tourists from around the world, offering a haven to people from all walks of life. Yet even paradise has its perils. Struggling to make ends meet, resort owners Lek and Sarai are happy to give an American named Patch room and board in...
A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought...
This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing...
Matti Friedman’s book is an account of his investigation into the remarkable story of one of the world’s most precious manuscripts: The Aleppo Codex, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible.
Written a millennium ago by a scribe at the Sea of Galilee, the codex was stolen by the...
Food is full of uncomplicated, tasty meals to tempt both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. Inspired by growing up as a vegetarian and working on her mother's recipes, and using stories and photographs (past and present) to tell her life through food, Mary has created recipes for friends and...
Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh.
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully...
On trial is Caroline Sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the Honourable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early...
Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm were the two most famous women of the First World War. They met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth, and when war broke out they roared off to London 'to do their bit'.
Within a month they were on the Western Front and had set up their own first-aid post a...
Sold to: France/Calmann-Levy; Germany/Piper; Netherlands/Wereldbibliotheek; Norway/Pax Forlag; Slovenia/Mladinska Knjiga Zalozba; Spain/Lumen; UK Atlantic Books; USA/GroveAtlantic.
Premio Campiello 2011 - More than 100,000 copies sold in Italy.
This debut novel surprisingly won one of...
If politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the artistry of democracy. Unless one partisan ideology holds sway over all branches of government, compromise is necessary to govern for the benefit of all citizens. A rejection of compromise biases politics in favor of the status...
