No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, Paperback - Khaled Khalifa

In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy and ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party...

Whilst wandering the back streets of Arezzo, Romer came across an old recipe book and was inspired by the recipes to investigate the culinary histo...

1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three a...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil warKhaled Khalifa's ...

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Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

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Elizabethan intrigue unfettered in a new omnibus: roguish courtiers, rival gangs, border raiders, treason, realpolitik and unbridled ambition.

Elizabethan intrigue unfettered in a new omnibus: roguish courtiers, rival gangs, border raiders, treason, realpolitik and unbridled ambition.

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): John CooperIllustration(s): 23 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Halftones, black and white; 11 Tables, ...

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In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service sta...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and...

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the pr...

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Ball's poems of menace and horror promise to make him the Stephen King of verse.Publisher: Coach House BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan BallNumber of pages...

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Reducere. The thread that runs through the poems in The Geography of Kitchens is one that connects us to family members who shaped our lives, particularly th...

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Emotions can be overwhelming and hard to explain. Malikah is cursed with her heightened power of empathy that gives her the ability to feel people'...

Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar is the controversial central figure in the fight for control of post-Gaddafi Libya. Haftar appears to have come from ...

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The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of Lond...