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    Home Fire

    Kamila Shamsie

    A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles’ Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master…

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    Best of Friends

    Kamila Shamsie

    Maryam and Zahra.

    In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a…

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    A God in Every Stone

    Kamila Shamsie

    BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION _______________

    ‘I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly … Exciting and, in the end, profoundly…

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    In the City by the Sea

    Kamila Shamsie

    Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and illustrates…

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    Best of Friends

    Kamila Shamsie

    A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this title presents an epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.

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    Kartography

    Kamila Shamsie

    A wonderful novel of fated love in Karachi, by the author of Salt and Saffron

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    Best of Friends: The new novel from the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

    Kamila Shamsie

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    ‘A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces’ - Madeline Miller ‘A shining tour de force’ - Ali Smith, Guardian Summer Reading

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    Broken Verses

    Kamila Shamsie

    The brilliant new novel from Pakistan’s most acclaimed young writer

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    Kartography

    Kamila Shamsie

    A wonderful novel of fated love in Karachi, by the author of Salt and Saffron

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    Broken Verses

    Kamila Shamsie

    The brilliant new novel from Pakistan’s most acclaimed young writer

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    Sweeping in scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters eluded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded…

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    Best of Friends

    Kamila Shamsie

    "A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces." -Madeline Miller

    "A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities." -Ali Smith

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    Salt and Saffron

    Kamila Shamsie

    For Aliya, stories of her family’s past are just amusing anecdotes. Only one aspect of her inheritance interests her - the story that her family has erased from its history…

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    Home Fire: A Novel

    Kamila Shamsie

    Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century. -The New York Times

    WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

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    Furies

    Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie

    A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents

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    An Introduction to Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

    Abbie Jukes

    Kamila Shamsie's celebrated novel Home Fire is a modern-day rewriting of Sophocles' play Antigone. Whilst Antigone has been re-adapted time and time again, this study guide aims to examine how…

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    A God in Every Stone

    Kamila Shamsie

    In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, finds herself fulfilling a dream by joining an archaeological dig in Turkey. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls…

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    A God in Every Stone

    Kamila Shamsie

    In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, finds herself fulfilling a dream by joining an archaeological dig in Turkey. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls…

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    Duckling

    Kamila Shamsie

    A duck unlike other ducks, a raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, strikes out into the world on her own. –Provided by publisher.

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    Unveiling Jazbaa: A History of Pakistan Women’s Cricket

    Aayush Puthran

    This book is the first documentation of the entire journey of Pakistan’s women’s international cricket team, serving to fill that void in the story of Pakistan cricket and in so…

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    Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution

    Kamila Shamsie

    Kamila Shamsie retells ‘The Ugly Duckling’.

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    Phoenix Fled

    Attia Hosain

    Attia Hosain is one of the most influential Indian writers of the twentieth century. In these beautifully wrought stories, she depicts characters who are caught between worlds and cultures.

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    Sunlight on a Broken Column

    Attia Hosain

    An influential, unforgettable novel set against the turbulent backdrop of Partition.

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    Orwell on Freedom

    George Orwell

    Orwell’s ambition to create a fairer and more egalitarian society is essential inspiration as we strive for freedom and equality in today’s world. ‘If liberty means anything at all it…

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    Meatless Days: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie

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    Sara Suleri’s memoir of life in Lahore.

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    Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

    Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo

    To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention.

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    A Suitable Love Object

    Rebecca Swift

    Posthumous collection by the founder of The Literary Consultancy, with a foreword by Michael Ondaatje.

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    Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves

    An anthology of writing from celebrated authors - Marina Warner, Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy and more - reflecting on experiences of otherness

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    Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

    Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of…

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    Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection

    Stories of human endeavour, endurance and resolve with an unexpected twist, published to celebrate a new range of The Balvenie whiskies - The Balvenie Stories. With contributions from Max Porter…

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    Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

    Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories.

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    Conradology: A Celebration of the Work of Joseph Conrad

    SJ Bradley,Grazyna Plebanek,Jan Krasnowolski,Richard Niland,Paul Theroux

    This anthology brings together specially commissioned short stories and essays, written in English or Polish (the latter being translated into English), which celebrate, respond to and critique the literary legacy…

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    1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

    Ali Smith,Jeanette Winterson,Kamila Shamsie,Daniel Kehlmann,Ales Steger

    A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world.

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    Refugee Tales: Volume II

    Jackie Kay,Olivia Laing,Rachel Holmes,Caroline Bergvall,Josh Cohen

    Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained.

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    Furies: The Virago Book of Wild Writing

    Margaret Atwood,Ali Smith,Emma Donoghue,Kirsty Logan,Chibundu Onuzo

    To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention.

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    The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

    Neil Gaiman,Amal El-Mohtar,Catherine King,Claire North,E. J. Swift

    Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters…

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    Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

    Neil Gaiman,Amal El-Mohtar,Catherine King,Claire North,E. J. Swift

    Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters…

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