Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature A marvellous allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism
- an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God
- it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king the Simorgh bird On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey the birds soon express their reservations to their leader the hoopoe With eloquence & insight however the hoopoe calms their fears using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth By turns witty & profound The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry

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SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS NOT ALL IT SEEMSSOMETIMES A CONFESSION IS THE BEGINNING NOT THE END NOW A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ' Brilliant' BA Paris author of Behind Closed Doors & The Breakdown' Chilling' Sunday Times' Enthralling'JP Delaney author of The Girl Before' Compulsive' Sunday Mirror' Addictive' Michelle Frances author of The Girlfriend Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry Mc Namara & his wife Julie The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches frozen by fear It looks like Harry's many sins
- corruption greed betrayal
- have finally caught up with him An hour later the intruder JP Carney hands himself in confessing to the assault The police have a victim a suspect in custody & an eye-witness account but Julie remains troubled Has Carney's surrender really been driven by a guilty conscience or is this confession the first calculated move in a deadly game? THE MOST GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF 2018 PERFECT FOR FANS OF FRIEND REQUEST & THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW' Brutal' Fiona Cummins author of Rattle' Gripping' Best' Jaw-dropping' Chris Whitaker author of Tall Oaks' Vivid' Irish Times' Fabulous' Amanda Jennings author of In Her Wake'A contender for the most arresting opening paragraph of the year' Sunday Express

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YOU FIND OUT WHO DID IT ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE ON THE LAST PAGE YOU'LL FIND OUT WHY'I can't praise The Confession enough Brilliant writing great story a really cracking read' BA Paris author of Behind Closed Doors & The Breakdown' Enthralling
- Spain dissects her characters' secrets with razor-sharp precision' JP Delaney author of The Girl Before Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry Mc Namara & his wife Julie The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches frozen by fear Just an hour later the attacker JP Carney has handed himself in to the police He confesses to beating Harry to death but JP claims that the assault was not premeditated & that he didn't know the identity of his victim With a man as notorious as Harry Mc Namara the detectives cannot help wondering was this really a random act of violence or is it linked to one of Harry's many sins corruption greed betrayal? This gripping psychological thriller will have you questioning who
- of Harry Julie & JP
- is really the guilty one? & is Carney's surrender driven by a guilty conscience or is his confession a calculated move in a deadly game?THE MOST GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF 2018 PERFECT FOR FANS OF HE SAID SHE SAID & THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR


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The pages of The Confession Album contain 100 questions Your part is collecting the answers
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New York Times Bestseller Following the success of Lean In & Why Women Should Rule the World the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative & practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence-and learning how to achieve it-for women of all ages & at all stages of their career Working women today are better educated & more well qualified than ever before Yet men still predominate in the corporate world In The Confidence Code Claire Shipman & Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence Combining cutting-edge research in genetics gender behavior & cognition-with examples from their own lives & those of other successful women in politics media & business-Kay & Shipman go beyond admonishing women to lean in Instead they offer the inspiration & practical advice women need to close the gap & achieve the careers they want & deserve ...

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The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus & comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist With this insight he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism & its mystical part ...