How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you`re most fitted to play is `wife of a terrorist`? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated & used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go `home` to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ` Other`? Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian & minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay & what it means to be `other` in a country that doesn`t seem to want you, doesn`t truly accept you
- however many generations you`ve been here
- but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms. Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants
- job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees
- until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over & become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary &
- most importantly
- real.





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How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you`re most fitted to play is `wife of a terrorist`? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated & used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go `home` to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ` Other`? Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian & minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, the Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay & what it means to be `other` in a country that doesn`t seem to want you, doesn`t truly accept you
- however many generations you`ve been here
- but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms. Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants
- job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees
- until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over & become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary &
- most importantly
- real.





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NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERThis is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet & woo a beautiful woman. He will swiftly move in with her & together they will live the seemingly calm life of a retired couple
- evenings in front of the television, a little holiday in Berlin. Then he will slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con & what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? & why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim?
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The Good Life by Dorian Amos is a journey up the Yukon without a paddle. Amos & his wife Bridget felt the need to go in search of life, so they left their comfortable home in Cornwall & moved to the Yukon Territory in the remote Canadian wilderness. The book is witness to a husband & wife struggling against naivety & fear to build a new life. Buying a piece of land in the forest just outside Dawson City, they revel in the stark landscape & their new found liberation
- crossing frozen rivers just to buy food, hunting caribou, coming face to face with bears & building their own cabin.
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The Good Life Gets Better sees Dorian Amos & his family up sticks & go panning for gold in the Yukon. Having settled in the harsh Canadian wilderness of The Klondike Valley & battled freezing temperatures, a hostile environment & wild animals Amos gets infected with a ‘gold fever’ that leads the family on yet another adventure. ...

` If I vanished he wouldn`t notice, if I died he wouldn`t care. I think of him all the time, & he thinks of me not at all. I love him, & my love torments me. There are times when I feel like a ghost beside him; as if he alone is real, & I`m just a daydream. ` This is the story of two brothers. One is impassioned & one reserved. One is destined to go down in history & the other to be forgotten. In Pullman`s hands, this sacred tale is reborn as one of the most enchanting, thrilling & visionary stories of recent years. ...

To play with this book, all you need is your finger. Take a pen, draw two eyes & a mouth, & there you are
- your very own finger
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Maya Haque
- outspoken, passionate, headstrong
- has been estranged from her brother Sohail for almost a decade. When she

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Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Irel&, 1825. NORA, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husb&, finds herself alone & caring for her young grandson Micheal. Micheal cannot speak & cannot walk & Nora is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive? MARY arrives in the valley to help Nora just as the whispers are spreading: the stories of unexplained misfortunes, of illnesses, & the rumours that Micheal is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. NANCE`s knowledge keeps her apart. To the new priest, she is a threat, but to the valley people she is a wanderer, a healer. Nance knows how to use the plants & berries of the woodland; she understands the magic in the old ways. & she might be able to help Micheal. As these three women are drawn together in the hope of restoring Micheal, their world of folklore & belief, of ritual & stories, tightens around them. It will lead them down a dangerous path, & force them to question everything they have ever known. Based on true events & set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent`s startling new novel about absolute belief & devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling & moving in equal measure, this long-awaited follow-up to Burial Rites shows an author at the height of her powers. ...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Irel&, 1825. Nora, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husb&, finds herself alone & caring for her young grandson Micheal. Micheal cannot speak & cannot walk & Nora is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive? Mary arrives in the valley to help Nora just as the whispers are spreading: the stories of unexplained misfortunes, of illnesses, & the rumours that Micheal is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Nance`s knowledge keeps her apart. To the new priest, she is a threat, but to the valley people she is a wanderer, a healer. Nance knows how to use the plants & berries of the woodland; she understands the magic in the old ways. & she might be able to help Micheal. As these three women are drawn together in the hope of restoring Micheal, their world of folklore & belief, of ritual & stories, tightens around them. It will lead them down a dangerous path, & force them to question everything they have ever known. Based on true events & set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent`s startling novel about absolute belief & devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling & moving in equal measure, this long-awaited follow-up to Burial Rites shows an author at the height of her powers. ...