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 Boeken
Deze auteur duikt in de complexiteit van geloof, de islam en mondiale ontwikkeling, en gebruikt haar scherpe intellect om complexe sociale en politieke veranderingen te onderzoeken. Haar schrijven wordt gevormd door uitgebreide journalistieke ervaring, waarbij ze een breed scala aan onderwerpen behandelt. Met een diepe interesse in contemplatieve praktijken, probeert ze het potentieel van mindfulness in het openbaar beleid te begrijpen, met name op het gebied van gezondheid en onderwijs. Haar werk weerspiegelt een toewijding om persoonlijk inzicht te verbinden met bredere maatschappelijke uitdagingen.
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
- 400bladzijden
- 14 uur lezen
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
- 320bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
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.