When a young Muslim woman goes missing, the trail leads to a quintessentially English family's tangled and dark connections with Empire, the Shah's Tehran and modern Bahrain, in this evocative and page-turning novel for readers of Maggie O'Farrell.
Madeleine Bunting Livres
Cette auteure explore les subtilités de la foi, de l'islam et du développement mondial, utilisant un intellect vif pour examiner les changements sociaux et politiques complexes. Son écriture est façonnée par une vaste expérience journalistique, abordant un large éventail de sujets. Avec un profond intérêt pour les pratiques contemplatives, elle cherche à comprendre le potentiel de la pleine conscience dans les politiques publiques, en particulier dans les domaines de la santé et de l'éducation. Son travail reflète une volonté de relier la perspicacité personnelle aux défis sociétaux plus larges.
An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist.
Island Song
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
In 1940, Helene - young, naïve and recently married - waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her hone, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation. Forty years later, her daughter, Roz, begins a search for the truth about her father, and stumbles into the secret history of her mother's life. As Roz discovers, truth is hard to pin down, ans so are the rights and wrongs of those struggling to survive in the most difficult of circumstances
Willing Slaves
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A hard-hitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques that seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.