When their traditional business
- selling saris
- is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans & stitched salwar kameez,

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Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled & delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson`s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period & same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack`s story. Jack
- prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson & namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years
- has come home looking for refuge & to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble & pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings & with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton`s most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory & engages painfully with his father & his father`s old friend John Ames.

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From the author of ” Earth From the Air” comes a moving & beautifully photographed new book. ” Home”, scheduled to release in conjunction with a film of the same name, is a globe-spanning exploration of the planet, complete with Yann Arthus-Bertrand`s unforgettable images & an informative text by the team at Good Planet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development. ” Home” is a celebration of Earth`s beauty & an impassioned call to protect it from destruction. Voyaging through over 50 countries, the book covers topics relevant to the environment`s current condition & factors which will play a role in determining its future: Earth, Agriculture, Cities, Oil, Global Warming, Sea, Water, Forest & Humanism. Compelling & consistently optimistic, the book focuses on practical solutions for today`s environmental challenges. As Arthus-Bertrand says, ` It isn`t the 50 per cent of forest that has disappeared that`s important, but the 50 per cent that`s left`. With vocal support from Luc Besson, who produced the film, ” Home” will have tremendous impact on readers & viewers alike. ...

AS FEATURED ON `THIS TIME NEXT YEAR` on ITV1” Heart-stopping. A need to read novel.” Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon A brave, important, heart-breaking book.” Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths Meet Jesika, aged four & a half. The most extraordinary narrator of 2018. She lives in a flat with her mother & baby brother & she knows a lot. She knows their flat is high up & the stairs are smelly. She knows she shouldn`t draw on the peeling wallpaper or touch the broken window. & she knows she loves her mummy & baby brother Toby. She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them & that Toby`s cough is going to get much worse. Or that Paige, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world. ...

Home might be a house in the country, a flat in the city, or even a shoe. Home resides on the road or the sea, in the realm of myth, or in the space where the artist created this book. A soulful meditation on the concept of home & a visual treat that invites many return visits, this loving look at the places where people live marks the picture-book debut of Carson Ellis, famed illustrator of the Wildwood series & artist for the indie folk-rock band The Decemberists. ...

WINNER OF THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2011 In Home Boy, H. M. Navqi`s superb debut novel, we Meet the Metrostanis: ...

Four friends decide to run away from the horror of their everyday lives in a children`s home in the English countryside. They head for the woods, their sense of freedom surprises them, & for the first time they feel the exhilaration of adolescence. Yet the forest slowly asserts its own power & what happens there will affect the four boys` lives forever. With his trademark humour, compelling narrative directness, & rhythmic prose, Alex Wheatle here shows himself to be an author of real calibre, exposing the social stigma associated with children`s homes, & the psychological consequences of their impact on sensitive children. Never losing pace or failing to engage the reader at every moment, ` Home Boys` is an unflinchingly honest depiction of childhood. ...

TV chef Lorraine Pascale, author of the phenomenal bestseller Baking Made Easy, is back with her second cookery book
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017` Elegant & evocative.. . A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family & faith in the modern world` Guardian` There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire` New York Times Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother`s death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can`t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London
- or their brother, Parvaiz, who`s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters` lives. Handsome & privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to
- or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz`s salvation? Two families` fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles` Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love & politics collide
- confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.


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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017` Elegant & evocative.. . A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family & faith in the modern world` Guardian` There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire` New York Times Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother`s death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can`t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London
- or their brother, Parvaiz, who`s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters` lives. Handsome & privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to
- or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz`s salvation? Two families` fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles` Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love & politics collide
- confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.


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