A young girl grows up in a family uprooted by the terror of an Islamic Revolution, where her culture, her gender, and her education are in peril. For the curious and imaginative Moji, there is no better place to grow up than the lush garden of her grandparents in Tehran. However, as she sits with her sister underneath the grapevines, listening to their grandfather recount the enchanting stories of One Thousand and One Nights, revolution is brewing in her homeland. Soon, the last monarch of Iran...
Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev and Uzma Jalaluddin, Noreen Mughees’s immersive debut novel reunites star-crossed childhood sweethearts against all odds, only for their second chance to clash with their parents’ strict beliefs. Thirty-three-year-old hijabi Sana Saeed has put away her childhood dream of ishq—an all-consuming, sweeping love. The arranged dates she’s agreed to have failed time after time, and she has responsibilities to consider—namely her sweet, autistic younger brother, Zia. Sana...
Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her family's traditions - in particular, her Bombay-bred mother's idea of how girls should behave. Now, hungry for experience and curious about the world, Saira travels to Karachi for a wedding, and stumbles on family secrets that will shape the rest of her life. It's the beginning of a journey of understa...
Famously known throughout their community as the ‘It’ girls of Yorkshire, Farrah and her sisters were popular, rebellious, edgy, and fashionable ‘influencers’ of their time and heavily into 1970s British culture and its music scene, much to the dismay of their Punjabi mother. Set against a backdrop of turbulent multi-cultural and politically volatile Britain and told through the eyes of Farrah, the youngest of four sisters and one brother living in Yorkshire and raised, unbeknown to the wider...
Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationTo tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth.Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is popula...
**Shortlisted for Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021**'An instantly gripping page-turner' Sunday Independent Life MagazineA young woman's body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six people, each one striving for a better life in an unforgiving city.A young Irish man comes to stay with his sister, keen to erase his troubled past in the heat of the Dubai sun. A Russian sex worker has outsmarted the system so far - but will her luck...
* A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2019 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 * * LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019 * 'BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, Booker-shortlisted author of DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it all and return to Egypt. Moni gave up a career in banking...
'Enthralling' Guardian Culture Preview'A quicksilver astonishment of a book. Just read it' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'A vital novel of newness and nowness' Raymond Antrobus'A rollercoaster coming of age picaresque' ObserverA New Statesman, Vogue, Guardian and Big Issue 2023 Fiction PickIdiot, poet, jihadist, son. Who is Yahya Bas? An exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and unbelonging from the prizewinning author of In Our Mad and Furious City.When Yahya Bas finds himself in a UK detentio...
'I laughed, I cried, I felt my heart want to explode with happiness' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I couldn't put it down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I practically devoured it in one sitting' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐One fake relationship. Two complete strangers.And a love was definitely not part of the plan...Jiya and Ibrahim are a perfect couple. Except they're not actually together, just faking it to get their families off their back.Jiya wants to complete her MBA and get her dream job in the city. So being perfect wife material and findin...
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.‘A vital storyteller’ALI SMITHAfter years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director,...
A New York Times bestseller * A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March * One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books by POC for 2019 * A Refinery 29 Best Book of the Month * A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019 'A love letter to storytelling' New York Times 'A nuanced look at the power of shame to shatter lives and send shards of pain hurtling down the generations . . . brilliant' Big Issue 'E...
Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family's orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys' grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents' deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin -- now a student actor in a wintry Montreal -- is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses...