Blogs in October 2024

Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan 5th October 2024

A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world…. Diverse in form, scope and style, Amanat brings together the voices of thirteen female Kazakhstani writers,...

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Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup 5th October 2024

Batu is just an ordinary kid in present-day Almaty, worried about bullies, school, and his mom’s new baby…until the day he meets Aspara, the Golden Warrior. Aspara steps straight out of Batu’s notebook cover―and out of Kazakhstan’s past. Aspara...

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Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2) 20th January 2022

Savannah Grace’s best selling, award winning saga of her family’s four-year-long backpacking adventure continues. “Backpacks and Bra Straps” picks up where “I Grew My Boobs in China” leaves off, offering insights into how family dynamics are affected by such...

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Out of Sight 4th May 2021

When rogue junk collides with a television satellite 22000 miles into space cosmologist Harry Stones approaches film director Nathalie Thompson to make an investigative documentary. Undeterred by Harry’s lack of sight, their quest leads them from the peaks of...

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Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme 22nd October 2020

The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that...

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