'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 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 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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*Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*

Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skillfully distils the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction.

This new updated and expanded edition includes information on the Israeli blockade and attacks on the Gaza Strip since 2008, new policies targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel and the growth of the global Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign.

Packed with vital information, quotations and resources, Israeli Apartheid never loses the human touch. The book is rooted in the author's extensive personal experience in Palestine and includes testimonies by Palestinians describing how Israeli apartheid affects their daily lives.

Ben White is a journalist and analyst, who has been visiting and writing about Palestine for over a decade. His books include Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide (Pluto, 2014), and Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (Pluto, 2018). His articles have been published by the Guardian, Independent, Newsweek Middle East, and many others. Ben is a frequent guest expert on Al Jazeera, and is a contributor for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.

'An essential guide for understanding Israeli apartheid - both the history, and the day to day reality' - Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land (2007)

'An excellent guide for understanding the magnitude of the crimes committed against the Palestinians and the nature of their present suffering and oppression' - Ilan Pappe, author of Out of the Frame

'A highly commendable effort to throw light on a fraught subject' - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

'This book takes on the most complex arenas of injustice and contested history, and renders them accessible, lucid, and morally compelling' - Karma Nabulsi, University of Oxford

'This little book is an invaluable tool' - Raymond Deane, The Electronic Intifada
'White's thesis is well researched, well argued and copiously referenced' - Susan de Muth, The Palestine Chronicle

IMPRINT: Pluto Press
PUBLISHED: 01/02/2014
ISBN: 9780745334639
LENGTH: 224 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 129mm x 198mm
WEIGHT: 100g

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This print is part of the Elements series of original handpainted art produced by our in-house designer. The series aims to summon a sense of awe in the viewer and remind them of our connection to nature's majesty. Each print in the series depicts a separate state in the weather cycle which can be seen as a mirror of our own constantly changing emotional mood. These prints can be displayed together or purchased separately to bring a sense of calm to your most sacred spaces. Available in two sizes - A2 and A4.

SIZE: A2 420mm x 594mm / A4 297mm x 210mm 
MATERIAL: 300gsm Fenner card
FEATURES: Printed in the UK, each print is sold unframed and packed flat

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This print is part of the Elements series of original handpainted art produced by our in-house designer. The series aims to summon a sense of awe in the viewer and remind them of our connection to nature's majesty. Each print in the series depicts a separate state in the weather cycle which can be seen as a mirror of our own constantly changing emotional mood. These prints can be displayed together or purchased separately to bring a sense of calm to your most sacred spaces. Available in two sizes - A2 and A4.

SIZE: A2 420mm x 594mm / A4 297mm x 210mm 
MATERIAL: 300gsm Fenner card
FEATURES: Printed in the UK, each print is sold unframed and packed flat

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This print is part of the Elements series of original handpainted art produced by our in-house designer. The series aims to summon a sense of awe in the viewer and remind them of our connection to nature's majesty. Each print in the series depicts a separate state in the weather cycle which can be seen as a mirror of our own constantly changing emotional mood. These prints can be displayed together or purchased separately to bring a sense of calm to your most sacred spaces. Available in two sizes - A2 and A4.

SIZE: A2 420mm x 594mm / A4 297mm x 210mm 
MATERIAL: 300gsm Fenner card
FEATURES: Printed in the UK, each print is sold unframed and packed flat

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SIZE: A6 105 mm x 148 mm
MATERIAL: 300gsm G . F Smith Accent Antique Silk uncoated card (acid-free and from managed sustainable forests)
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All cards are blank inside and come with a Cobalt blue G . F Smith envelope.

SIZE: A6 105 mm x 148 mm
MATERIAL: 300gsm G . F Smith Accent Antique Silk uncoated card (acid-free and from managed sustainable forests)
FEATURES: Designed and printed in the UK

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All cards are blank inside and come with a Cobalt blue G . F Smith envelope.

SIZE: A6 105 mm x 148 mm
MATERIAL: 300gsm G . F Smith Accent Antique Silk uncoated card (acid-free and from managed sustainable forests)
FEATURES: Designed and printed in the UK

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All cards are blank inside and come with a Cobalt blue G . F Smith envelope.

SIZE: A6 105 mm x 148 mm
MATERIAL: 300gsm G . F Smith Accent Antique Silk uncoated card (acid-free and from managed sustainable forests)
FEATURES: Designed and printed in the UK

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All cards are blank inside and come with a Cobalt blue G . F Smith envelope.

SIZE: A6 105 mm x 148 mm
MATERIAL: 300gsm G . F Smith Accent Antique Silk uncoated card (acid-free and from managed sustainable forests)
FEATURES: Designed and printed in the UK

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