'An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment ... It continues to haunt me' NATASHA BROWN, I PAPER BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON

'A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered, impossible to forget' MEGAN HUNTER

'Stunning ... beautifully written and deeply unsettling' BOOKSELLER, EDITOR'S CHOICE

CHOSEN AS A 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, GRAZIA, STYLIST, ELLE THE NATIONAL, FIVE BOOKS AND BURO

A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged.

But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya's unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return, she begins to change. The past she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces, and the hot summer builds to a startling climax.

Lean, sly and unsettling, Asylum Road is about the many borders governing our lives: between men and women, assimilation and otherness, nations, families, order and chaos.

What happens, and who do we become, when they break down?

IMPRINT: Bloomsbury Publishing
PUBLISHED: 20/01/2022
ISBN: 9781526617408
LENGTH: 272 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm
WEIGHT: 100g

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"A gripping read and a haunting story of love, loss and betrayal. Guaranteed to move even the hardest heart." - Independent

"Shattering ... devastating and inspiring." - Observer

"Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales ... he's not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing." - The Times

"Rings true with tenderness and truth." - Daily Mail

"A devastating, masterful and painfully honest story of a life crippled by an act of childhood and cowardice and cruelty ... It speaks the harrowing truth about the power of evil, personal and political, and intoxicates, like a high-flying kite, with the power of hope." - Daily Telegraph

"Stunning and heartbreaking in its quiet intensity." - Guardian

"This is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honour, guilt, fear, redemption ... It is so powerful that for a long time after, everything I read seemed bland." - Isabel Allende

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

IMPRINT: Bloomsbury Publishing
PUBLISHED: 23/08/2018
ISBN: 9781526604743
LENGTH: 368 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 110mm x 177mm
WEIGHT: 100g

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A Thousand Splendid Suns is an ambitious work. Once again the setting is Afghanistan, but this time [Hosseini] has taken the last 33 years of that country’s tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women.”

—The New York Times

“Spectacular. . . Hosseini’s writing makes our hearts ache, our stomachs clench and our emotions reel. . . Hosseini tells this saddest of stories in achingly beautiful prose through stunningly heroic characters whose spirits somehow grasp the dimmest rays of hope.”
—USA Today

“Just as good, if not better, than Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”
—Newsweek

“A compelling story that gives voice to the agonies and hopes of another group of innocents caught up in a war. . . Mesmerizing. . . Hosseini’s bewitching narrative captures the intimate details of life in a world where it’s a struggle to survive, skillfully inserting this human story into the larger backdrop of recent history.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

IMPRINT: Bloomsbury Publishing
PUBLISHED: 23/08/2018
ISBN: 9781526604750
LENGTH: 432 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm
WEIGHT: 100g

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A collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse.

Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and the notion of the “rogue state”, turning the focus of criticism inwards and demonstrating how Western powers fail to uphold their own standards of conduct. Among the topics considered are the Balkans Crisis, the embargo against Cuba, and US intervention in Latin America, all of which provide important lessons for today from one of our most eminent and insightful teachers.

'Indefatigable' - Guardian

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and has profoundly shaped contemporary understanding of American politics. An ally of anarcho-syndicalists the world over, he has authored numerous books on linguistics, history and politics. He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

IMPRINT: Pluto Press
PUBLISHED: 01/09/2016
ISBN: 9780745335636
LENGTH: 352 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm

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From Rachida: A masterpiece by Chomsky. The book is two decades old, but it is so relevant to the shit show of today that I am not surprised they keep reprinting it. Chomsky highlights the sheer hypocrisy of US foreign policy towards Palestine with such genius that even his haters would find it hard to argue with him. He reveals a mountain of rarely seen evidence and presents it in such a clear and readable manner that you will be gripped from the first sentence. Essential reading for anyone who wants a thorough understanding of the situation, not what those in charge of the mainstream media want you to think. 

A devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy which covers a sustained period of Middle East history

With an extended new preface by the author.

'One of the most important intellectuals alive' Independent

One of Noam Chomsky's most important and renowned works, Fateful Triangle, is a devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy which covers a sustained period of Middle East history from the formation of the State of Israeli to the Oslo Peace Accords. With a foreword by the late Edward Said, this powerful book belongs in the hands of anyone who wants a deep understanding of Israel and its relationship to Western power.

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and has profoundly shaped contemporary understanding of American politics. An ally of anarcho-syndicalists the world over, he has authored numerous books on linguistics, history and politics. He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

IMPRINT: Pluto Press
PUBLISHED: 01/09/2016
ISBN: 9780745335469
LENGTH: 776 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm

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From Rachida: This is one of those books that makes you feel more intelligent and more knowledgeable. Amelia goes into great detail about the concept of work and explains with impressive clarity why our current system is rigged against the employee (and what to do about this).

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***

'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones

'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation.

Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces, we become less miserable, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with 'work' as we know it.

Amelia Horgan is a writer and researcher. She has written for various publications including Tribune, the Guardian and VICE.

'Fascinating and absorbing ... a corrective to the widespread view that anyone can find fulfilment through their job, if they just work hard enough' - Grace Blakeley, editor of 'Futures of Socialism' (Verso, 2020)

‘Amelia Horgan is, in the words of organizer Fred Ross, a social arsonist. Her book will set your world on fire. Somewhere in our bones, we know that work is getting worse. But with this book, Horgan has provided the match and the kindling we need to burn the whole thing down/’ - Sarah Jaffe, author of 'Work Won't Love You Back' (Hurst, 2021)

'At last, a book that helps us appreciate the long history of the working class challenge to the tyranny of work that puts class struggle in the workplace firmly back on the agenda' - John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor of the Labour Party

IMPRINT: Pluto Press
PUBLISHED: 01/06/2021
ISBN: 9780745340913
LENGTH: 176 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm
WEIGHT: 100g

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