From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels.
It is 1945. A group of refugees, from various backgrounds,
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Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, & has money to burn. In this timely, revealing & evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate`s dramatic development & the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people & their desert culture. & as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive & controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East & West. ...

10th anniversary edition. New entries & citizenship test. Tangent`s biggest selling local book. Perfect gift book for young & old. Harry Stoke & Vinny Green launched the Dictionary of Bristle in 2003 to celebrate the remarkable success of their thatbebristle website a hilarious spoof news page with a passing similarity to the Bristol Evening Post`s thisisbristol website. At its peak, the website enjoyed astonishing success & the Dictionary was originally published to help readers understand the nuances of the Bristolian words & phrases. The website is long gone, but the Dictionary goes from strength to strength & sells particularly strongly at Christmas through supermarkets as well as the traditional booktrade & in gift shops. Tangent Books acquired the Dictionary from Broadcast books in 2009 & released a third edition. The updated fourth edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Dictionary. The book is now accepted worldwide as the authoritative guide to speaking Bristolian & has been responsible for a whole new generation of Bristolians reclaiming their distinctive dialect. Within two years of the publication of the Dictionary of Bristle the Bristolian word `lush` was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. ...

This is an exhaustive compendium of some 1, 000 words & phrases from twenty different languages that are used in English. This is a language which is rich in foreign infusions, thanks to the many invasions that have enlivened the history of our isl&. As a result, what we know today as English is far from the language of the Angles. From the time of Shakespeare down to the present day, the English language has always profited from foreign contacts resulting in contributions from across the globe. This dictionary presents a selection of those foreign terms now used in English but that are neither on the one hand Anglicized nor on the other merely pedantic. Never again need you rack your brain for the mot juste. Simply consult this dictionary to discover the perfect piece de resistance to dazzle your audience. ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK. ” Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.” (In Style). Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko & grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother & daughter. When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt & humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance & the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today. ...

The child narrator of A Different Dog can`t speak
- we assume it is from a disability or a reaction to a trauma in his past. He
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` Armed with a squash racket & enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfilment & genuine personhood` Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Maria Toorpakai Wazir has lived her life disguised as a boy, defying the Taliban, in order to pursue her love of sport. Coming second in a national junior weightlifting event for boys, Maria decided to put her future in her own hands by going in disguise. When she discovered squash & was easily beating all the boys, life became more dangerous. Heart-stopping & profoundly moving, Maria shares the story of her long road & eventual triumph, pursuing the sport she loved, defying death threats & following her dream. ...

Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population & culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks &, every now & then, a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence. This is portrait of a world in ferment, a decaying empire shaken by war & revolution, & a life-long search for meaning. ...

Singapore
- a trading post where different lives jostle & mix. It is 1927, & three young people are starting to question whether
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Singapore is a trading post where different lives jostle & mix. It is 1927, & three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; &, Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard & become a successful businessman. As the years pass, & the Second World War sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, & tested to breaking point. Richly evocative, ”A Different Sky” paints a scintillating panorama of thirty tumultuous years in Singapore`s history through the passions & struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget. ...