Blogs in January 2016

Last Prophecy of Rome 28th January 2016

NEW YORK: A delivery van hurtling through Wall Street, blows up, showering the sky with a chilling message: America is about to be brought down like the Roman Empire. And there is only one man that can stop it...

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Between Two Rivers 3rd January 2016

Between Two Rivers is an honest, funny and moving memoir of Baghdad life from the perspective of a young woman from England, transplanted into another culture by love and family. Dorothy is eighteen when she meets a dark, mysterious...

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The Librarian of Basra 22nd July 2015

This is the true story of Alia Baker, written for children, who saved the books from the main library in Basra when war broke out in 2003. Told for children it conveys the value of books and reading, set,...

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The Bamboo Stalk 20th April 2015

Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true...

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Falling off the Edge of the World 29th November 2014

What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia,...

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