SHAMSIE KAMILA

(P/B) HOME FIRE
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British...
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(P/B) BEST OF FRIENDS
A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people... Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly ...
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ΚΡΥΦΗ ΦΩΤΙΑ
Η Ίσμα είναι ελεύθερη πια. Αφού αφιέρωσε χρόνια στη φροντίδα των νεαρότερων αδελφιών της μετά τον θάνατο της μητέρας τους, αποδέχεται μια πρόσκληση από τη Χίρα, μέντορά της που ζει στην Αμερική, η οποία της επιτρέπει να κάνει πραγματικότητα ένα άπιαστο όνειρό της. Ωστόσο, ο νους της είναι στο Λονδίνο και στην Ανίκα, την όμορφη και ξεροκέφαλη αδελφή της, αλλά και στον αδελφό της, τον Παρβίζ, που εξαφανίστηκε ακολουθώντας το δικό του όνειρο, δέσμιος της σκοτεινής κληρονομιάς του τζιχαντιστή πατέρα που δε γνώρισε ποτέ. Όταν επανεμφανίζεται στ...
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(P/B) A GOD IN EVERY STONE
By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is abo...
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(P/B) A GOD IN EVERY STONE
Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial r...
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(P/B) HOME FIRE
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British...
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