Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance & fear. To many in the west, Islam means jihad, veiled women & suicide bombers. Yet these represent only fringe elements of the world's fastest growing religion. While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history
- from Karen Armstrong's Islam: A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crisis of Islam, there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion, let alone one by an author from an Islamic background. No God But God fills that gap.

What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or of war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews & Christians? Can an Islamic state be founded on democratic values such as pluralism & human rights? In No god but God, challenging the


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Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance & fear. To many in the west, Islam means jihad, veiled women & suicide bombers. Yet these represent only fringe elements of the world's fastest growing religion. While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history
- from Karen Armstrong's Islam: A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crisis of Islam, there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion, let alone one by an author from an Islamic background. No God But God fills that gap.

What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or of war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews & Christians? Can an Islamic state be founded on democratic values such as pluralism & human rights? In No god but God, challenging the


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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum Mac Donald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired & black-eyed, with its own identify, its own history. It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander Mac Donald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling & passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, & with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'. ...

April, 1912. Edwina Winfield is returning to New York from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé, Charles, her parents & her five siblings. Deeply in love, she & Charles are looking forward to beginning their new life together. They are travelling on the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built: the SMS Titanic.

But in one fatal night, Edwina

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April, 1912. Edwina Winfield is returning to New York from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé, Charles, her parents & her five siblings. Deeply in love, she & Charles are looking forward to beginning their new life together. They are travelling on the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built: the SMS Titanic.

But in one fatal night, Edwina

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Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost. ...

When news of the death of her ex-husband reaches Binnie, it seems that her tranquil life in the West Country would come to an end. To her surprise, she discovers that he had left her the island in the beautiful archipelago off the coast of Cornwall where he had spent his childhood, & Binnie has to take her family to the island ...

When news of the death of her ex-husband reaches Binnie, it seems that her tranquil life in the West Country would come to an end. To her surprise, she discovers that he had left her the island in the beautiful archipelago off the coast of Cornwall where he had spent his childhood, & Binnie has to take her family to the island ...

No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father & a downtrodden mother, the ' Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic & convincing. ...