An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt’s past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians: political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants.
Bradbury and Evans , where he was put to work learning to engrave banknotes . A modest step up from the father's own position , and as much as one could realistically expect - a good income , sufficient to marry and raise a family ...
It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss.
I'd been told more than once that I bore a close resemblance to Marilyn Monroe when she was still Norma Jeane Baker, but that's only partially true. I'd kill for Norma Jeane's perfect lips or luminescent skin, but our smile was almost ...
The gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
An illustrated selection of answers to the title's question, submitted online and collected by Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn, collectively known as The Buried Life and featured in the MTV reality television series ...
Four boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs dig up a mysterious box of bones in this first book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper.
A haunted house, a buried mystery, and a very angry ghost make this one unforgettable thriller.Jade loves the house she's just moved into with her family.
"This is a simple story about a young girl who, between the ages of 4 to 17, buried nearly a thousand writings in glass jars from Portland, Oregon into Southern California.
Leonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of both novelistic and documentary style.