Tahirih is a young, uneducated, but highly curious woman living in late-nineteenth-century Persia where 90 per cent of the population is illiterate. She desperately wants to learn to read but is forbidden by her husband to do so. This novel tells her story
- as a wife, mother, daughter, friend, but most importantly as herself.
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Nothing is ever what it seems. Hana & Kimi have to face their past & stop hiding who they really are. The time has come to cross the land to the temples of Mount Fuji & reunite their shattered family. But shadows & treachery stalk them on their journey, & the bonds of friendship & loyalty will be tested to the very limit. ...

The story of events of a single night in a small European town during the 1920s. Woody Allen plays Kleinman, a fearful little man who is woken up one night to participate in a mob search for a killer. On the edge of the same town the circus has just arrived & the series of incidents that occur affect not only Kleinman but all the townfolk. Allen's film is a homage to 1920's German Expressionism, shot in black & white by Carlo di Palma. ...

It is 1910 & the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found in the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. It is a murder that unveils dark shadows of the past, & has an unexpected impact on the lives of Sir Henry Chetwynd & his family. This is the story of love, war & intrigue. ...