Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie

Woodmansey, Woody

Pan Macmillan India

For the `serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author's purpose, then, `is not literary criticism or biography', but only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own father); the culture of school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi. Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers. `Essential reading . . . it offers the insights and observations - on literature, history and cultural sensibility - of an honest and truly global thinker' Evening Standard `The greatest writer now living in Britain. His courage in seeing and telling the truth represents a level of high seriousness that has all but vanished' Sunday Times `Naipaul has a sharp visual sense . . . And then there is his chiselled prose, elegant and economical: who, now living, writes as well as he?' Financial Times

Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

V.S.Naipaul

This paper over board edition of Kingfisher Atlas of World History by Simon Adams combines all four volumes in the series, depicting the world and its people between 10000BCE and the present day. It covers all major human civilizations, from the ancient world to modern times, and examines the core curriculum themes of religion, exploration, colonization, industry, technology, war and diplomatic relations.

Kingfisher Atlas of World History [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2012] NA

Simon Adams

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn,embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal customs. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. She fought against her seclusion and lack of freedom, her Afghan family's attempts to convert her from Judaism to Islam, and her husband's wish to permanently tie her to the country through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid - and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture. Chesler nearly died there but she managed to get out, returned to her studies in America, and became an author and an ardent activist for women's rights throughout the world. An American Bride in Kabul is the story of how a naive American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.

An American Bride in Kabul

Chesler, Phyllis

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Caring Economics

Business & Money

Tania Singer

Business Culture

Let There Be Water

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 400 Language: English With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv. Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn. New York. Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service. who smuggle Meir back to Iran. where he is imprisoned. tortured. and prepared for a show trial.What they don't know is that Meir was in New York to recruit Dewey Andreas for a secret operation. Meir had been tipped off that Iran had finally succeeded in building their first nuclear weapon. one they were planning to use to attack Israel. His source was a high-level Iranian government official and his proof was a photo of the bomb itself.Dewey Andreas. a former Army Ranger and Delta. owes his life to Meir and his team of Israeli commandos. Now. to repay hi...

The Last Refuge (Dewey Andreas)

BEN COES

This is the new heart-racing thriller from the Number One International Bestselling Author. War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army's CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there's much more to this case than they had first thought. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems, and nothing can be taken at face value. When Puller and Cole discover a dangerous situation in the making, Puller finds he must turn to the one person who can help avert certain catastrophe. A person he has known all his life. In a breathtaking rollercoaster race against time, Cole fears for the community in which she was raised, and Puller knows he has to overcome the enemies of his country to avoid far reaching disaster. But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see is coming...

Zero Day

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

david-baldacci

Thrillers & Suspense

Lie Down With Lions

Literature & Fiction

FOLLETT,KEN

Genre Fiction

A Matter of Honour

ARCHER,JEFFREY

Mystery

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