Blogs in March 2021

My Name Is Parvana 4th March 2021

  She heard the woman’s boots walk away down the hall. She stood and waited, listening hard to see if the boots would come back. When she was sure she was alone, the girl finally spoke. ‘ Yes,’ she...

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My Swordhand is Singing 24th January 2021

An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In the bitter cold of an...

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The City Where Dreams Come True 7th December 2020

TRANSLATED BY ALTIMA GROUP A Collection of Four Stories by Gulsifat Shahidi Viewed from the perspective of three generations, Shahidi presents a rare and poignant insight into the impact which Tajikistan’s terrible civil war had on its people and...

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Willow Trees don’t Weep 7th December 2020

A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself. Najwa’s father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother’s death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of...

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Dancing in the Mosque 24th November 2020

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity? Your family? In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave...

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