**WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE ****A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS READER FAVOURITE**'A gripping tale of one woman's extraordinary adventures .
Her only chance at freedom waits across the horizonUpon uncovering her tyrannical father's malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own.
The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ("e;the ruler by order of God"e;), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.
El 1881, en un petit poble de Sardenya, s'entrellacen les històries de la Lara, àlies Maura, i l'advocat Marco Ferragna, que intenta curar la jove d'una malaltia que la consumeix.
'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him' Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author--- Paris, 1923.
**WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE ****A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS READER FAVOURITE**'A gripping tale of one woman's extraordinary adventures .
Soy también la memoria, la primera obra póstuma del reconocido escritor Jorge Castelli, explora el tema de la persistencia de la memoria en diferentes contextos históricos y relaciones humanas.
Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFEATURED ONLITHUBCBC BOOKS:2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEWDickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinsons poems out of the shadowsWhen she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper.
Beowulf is one of the most universally studied of the English classics, and considered to be the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
For readers of The Wolf Den and Kaikeyi comes the thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of a legendary Egyptian pharaoh and the path she must take to escape her own dangerous fate.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.
'A heart-warming and affecting tale' - Woman's WeeklyHomecoming for the Chocolate Girls is the heartfelt and dramatic conclusion to this gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate.
Der langersehnte vierte Band der Kinderklinik WeißenseeBerlin-Weißensee, 1948: Elisabeth "Lissi" Vogel kann es kaum erwarten, als Assistenzärztin an der Kinderklinik Weißensee endlich in die Fußstapfen ihrer Tante Marlene zu treten.
WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from one of the rising stars of Arab fiction (New York Times)Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation.
