From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted Return of a King' the romantic & ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural religious & political boundaries of its time James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa
- Most Excellent among Women'
- the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad He fell in love with her & overcame many obstacles to marry her converting to Islam & according to Indian sources becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company It is a remarkable story but such things were not unknown from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny the white Mughals' who wore local dress & adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as Hindoo Stuart' who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols & Sir David Auchterlony who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades each on the back of her own elephant In White Mughals' William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history & places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction & betrayal

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Meet Harry Dresden Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange & magical things
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Following on from the award-winning Raven Black White Nights is the second title in Ann Cleeves' popular Shetland crime series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide He recognizes the victim
- a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death Yet this is no desperate act of anguish but the work of a cold & calculating killer As Perez investigates he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community Then another body is found Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day & nothing is quite as it seems
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again but he wishes to escape but can he trust the American? ...

Supernatural thriller based on the phenomenon known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) lives a peaceful life until his wife Anna (Chandra West) is murdered When he is contacted by a man (Ian Mc Neice) who claims to be receiving messages from Anna through EVP Jonathan becomes convinced that the messages are real & sets about trying to contact her on his own ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A man whose family is murdered tries to commit suicide but he is brought back from the brink of death He soon discovers that he now has the ability to identify people who are about to die & begins saving them from their demises-only to discover the perils of interrupting death&s plans ...

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way It is a powerful story of mothers & daughters their ambiguous alliances their selfish love & cruel behaviour & the search for love & identity Astrid has been raised by her mother a beautiful headstrong poet Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover & is imprisoned for life Astrid's fierce determination to survive & be loved makes her an unforgettable figure'LIQUID POETRY'
- Oprah Winfrey' Tangled Complex & extraordinarily moving'
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Immigrating to the United States Italians like all others arriving on America's shores were made to fill out a standardized immigration form In the box for race they faced two choices North Italian or South Italian On the line requesting information on color they wrote simply white By World War II the only option they had for race & color questions was white This identification is suggestive of the many ways in which Italians became white on arrival in the United States as Thomas A Guglielmo demonstrates in this prize-winning book While many suffered from racial prejudice & discrimination they were nonetheless viewed as white with all the privileges this color classification bestowed in the corridors of American power-from judges to journalists from organized labor to politicians from race scientists to realtors Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point & drawing on dozens of oral histories & a diverse array of primary sources in English & Italian Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race & color were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration & labor Chicago His account skillfully weaves together the major events of Chicago immigrant history-the Chicago Color Riot of 1919 the rise of Italian organized crime & the rise of industrial unionism-with national & international events-such as the rise of fascism & the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935-36-to present the story of how Italians approached learned & lived race By tracking their evolving position in the city's racial hierarchy Guglielmo reveals the impact of racial classification-both formal & informal-on immigrants' abilities to acquire homes & jobs start families & gain opportunities in America Carefully drawing the distinction between race & color Guglielmo argues that whiteness proved Italians' most valuable asset for making it in America Even so Italians were reluctant to identify themselves explicitly as white until World War II By separating examples of discrimination against Italians from the economic & social advantages they accrued from their acceptance as whites Guglielmo counters the claims of many ethnic Americans that hard work alone enabled their extraordinary success especially when compared to non-white groups whose upward mobility languished A compelling story White on Arrival contains profound implications for our understanding of race & ethnic acculturation in the United States as well as twentieth-century immigration urban & political history ...