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Sylvia

Maithreyi Karnoor

Sylvia is a beautifully woven tapestry of South Indian characters illustrating the ways in which we leave indelible imprints on each other’s lives. Sylvia is the thread that binds all the stories together, appearing as a colleague, friend, wife and lover in the lives of others, until she finally comes into focus herself – but is it too late?

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The House of Atreus: Clytemnestra’s Bind

From one of Greek mythology’s most reviled characters—a woman who challenged the absolute power of men—comes this fiery tale of power, family rivalry and a mother’s burning love.

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The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon

Safinah Danish Elahi

The story of three adults who experienced a childhood trauma that left them divided and scattered. A journey of intrigue and discoveries as Zohaib, Misha and Nadia attempt to find resolution at last. A story of love, loss, trauma and healing against the backdrop of Karachi elites and class divides.

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Can I Stray

A captivating coming-of-age story – perfect for fans of Kate Elizabeth Russell and Holly Bourne – this debut novel explores consent, mental health, and the complex world of teenage sexual politics.

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The Book of Perilous Dishes

1798 Bucharest: The Book of Perilous Dishes is missing. The recipes in this book can bring about damaging sincerity, forgetfulness, the gift of prediction, or hysterical laughter. The only clue is a map left by the murdered Cuviosu Zăval… A magical, dark adventure through Romania, France and Germany. With real medieval recipes. France and Germany. With real medieval recipes.

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Cows Can’t Jump

Billy’s desperate to escape middle England. He’s working the ultimate dead-end job as a grave-digger, his grandad’s engaged to a West Indian woman half his age, his xenophobic dad’s obsessed with boxing; and his mum’s certainly having an affair. Celebrities keep dying and Britain awaits the EU referendum. Meeting Eva, though, changes everything.

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Children of War

Fifteen generations of Hassanakis’s family have been Cretan. After WW1, amidst rumours that Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey, Hassanakis worries he will have to leave behind his great love, the Greek widow Marigo, and his beloved homeland. He can’t believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one.

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Distant Signs

Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall.

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Trees for the Absentees

Young love, meddling aunts, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined, Philistia’s world is that of an ordinary student. Except in Palestine, and with your father in jail, nothing is ordinary. With trees uprooted around her, she seeks a place of refuge, somewhere she can plant a memory for the ones she’s lost, for the people who are vanishing.

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Ashjaar lil-Naas al-Ghaa’ibeen

Young love, meddling relatives, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined – Philistia’s world is that of an ordinary university student, except that in occupied Palestine, and when your father is in indefinite detention, nothing is straightforward.

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The Umbrella Men

A witty, fast-paced and acerbic novel set in pristine Oregon and the corporate corridors of New York, London and China. A story for our times where finance, environmentalism, rare-earth mining and human frailties collide in a complex of flawed motives.

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Belly Woman Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story

An eye-opening work of reportage and advocacy, Belly Woman chronicles the inside journey through an unfolding global health crisis and the struggle to save the lives of young mothers.

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Head Above Water

Shahd Alshammari

Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies.

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Modesty: A Fashion Paradox

Modest fashion is a young, fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar retail sector. What do we mean by Modest Fashion? Who are the personalities and companies driving this industry?

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HER ALLIES: A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy

This practical toolkit offers men the strategies they need to become powerful advocates for gender equality. But, at its heart, this book is an invitation to all men who are willing to take that bold first step and transform good intention into meaningful action.

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War of the Wind

Victoria Williamson

From award-winning Scottish author, Victoria Williamson, this eco-thriller about secret government weapons testing gone wrong, is an action-packed adventure for 11+ year olds. It features a cast of children with special needs and shows their abilities in a positive light, allowing them to take centre stage in the unfolding drama.

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The Three Hares: Terracotta Horse

Scott Lauder, David Ross

Sara, Sanjeev and Salma are transported back in time to Xi’an, during a perilous trial pitting their wits against a formidable and violent foe who has escaped from his thousand-year imprisonment and is bent on revenge.

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The Three Hares: The Jade Dragonball

Scott Lauder, David Ross

Sara Livingstone’s school trip to the Beijing Palace Museum takes a terrifying turn when an encounter with the ancient Qingming Scroll thrusts her a thousand years into China’s past. With secrets in the shadows and danger around every corner, Sara must take her place in a cosmic battle and find the courage to face an unworldly ancient magic.

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The Three Hares: The Gold Monkey Key

Scott Lauder, David Ross

Sanjeev’s dog Jigsaw is missing in the middle of winter in New Jersey. But this tragedy is dwarfed by what happens to him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Has he really entered the 6th Century and become the slave to monks traveling the Silk Road to Byzantium – and might they just be murderers? Trouble is even if he figures out how to get out of this, he’s got other problems: someone, or something, is coming after him. Part of the answer might be Sara, a girl who contacts him on the net and keeps talking about the Immortals. But who or what are The Three Hares and how can they stop the darkness about to engulf the world?

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Silverwing

One day Douglas finds an injured Greylag goose and so begins his and his father’s mission to nurse the bird, and themselves, back to health after the death of his mother.

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Toletis

The Trees are disappearing and the adults don’t care. Toletis, his dog Amenophis and friends Claudia and Tutan are on a mission to turn their little valley town, set deep in the mountains, lusciously green again. The odds are stacked against them. Can they succeed … with some very unusual help?

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Code Name: Butterfly

With irony and poignant teenage idealism, Butterfly draws us into her world of adult hypocrisy, sibling rivalries, girlfriends’ power plays, unrequited love…not to mention the political tension of life under occupation. As she observes her fragile environment with all its conflicts, Butterfly is compelled to question everything around her.

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Ismee Alharakee Farasha

With irony and poignant teenage idealism, Butterfly draws us into her world of adult hypocrisy, sibling rivalries, girlfriends’ power plays, unrequited love…not to mention the political tension of life under occupation.

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