At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl & her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mistake. In 1958, a mute boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. & in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity & family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. Spanning generations & braiding together three unforgettable voices, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan shows us what it means to belong, & how storytelling can redeem us all. ...

Nine lives, nine very different religious paths: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet
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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet
- then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the
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As one of al-Qaeda`s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks & swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda`s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians & saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side
- & his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money & equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, & what it will take to stop it once & for all.
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Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt`s harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad & as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness & a devastating blend of angry despair & cool detachment, Zsolt
- one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust
- provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice & betrayal of which human beings
- the victims no less than the perpetrators
- are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque farce, grim irony & occasional memories of human kindness, Zsolt`s nightmarish but meticulously realistic chronicle of smaller & larger crimes against humanity is as riveting as it is horrifying.



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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. ...

May 1983. John Pigott, an overweight lawyer as noble in his intentions as he is a slave to his desires, finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay's murder might be innocent
- & that all the people who could answer his questions are dead. June 1977. BJ the rent boy's life is in danger for what he knows, plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possibility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself. December 1974. Maurice Jobson, the senior policeman known as The Owl, is sucked into a morass of corruption where murder & cruelty present themselves as the only tools for survival. Nineteen Eighty Three is a dark, disturbing & intense finale to The Red Riding Quartet, one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing.
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Christmas bombs & Lucky Lucan on the run, Leeds United & the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist & It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Yorkshire, Christmas 1974. Edward Dunford, North of England Crime Correspondent, has been sent to cover the case of the missing girl Clare Kemplay. He's convinced she's been murdered. When the little girl turns up dead in a ditch with swan's wings stitched into her back, Eddie's instincts prove right. But standing between him & the truth is a society riddled with corruption & brutality. Getting answers will mean a toss-up between his sanity & his life. Winter 1974's looking like a real season in hell. ...

It was the year of sex & drugs & rock & roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King & Bobby Kennedy assassinations, Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement & the Tet Offensive, the student rebellion that paralyzed France, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, & the birth of the women's movement. With 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his magnum opus-a cultural & political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval, when television's impact on global events first became apparent, & where simultaneously, in Paris, Prague, London, Berkeley, Chicago, New York & all over the globe uprisings spontaneously occurred. 1968 encompasses the worlds of youth & music, politics, war, economics, assassinations, riots, & demonstrations-and the media, & shows us how we got to where we are today. 1968 is destined to be Mark Kurlansky's most important & most fascinating book yet. ...