Shaun Whiteside
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Patience Ibrahim was nineteen, her first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant. Soon after, Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Violently abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers will do. She is alone in the world and fears her life is...
46) Limit
Author
Publisher
Jo Fletcher/Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In 2025, entrepreneur Julian Orley opens the first-ever hotel on the moon. But Orley Enterprises deals in more than space tourists--it also operates the world's only space elevator, which in addition to allowing the very wealthy to play tennis on the lunar surface connects Earth with the moon and enables the transportation of helium-3, the fuel of the future, back to the planet. Julian has invited twenty-one of the world's richest and most powerful...
47) Manituana
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From the authors of the acclaimed 'Q', an epic novel about the birth of a nation and the extermination of utopia.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When Raif Badawi and Ensaf Haidar fell in love with each other as adolescents, they did so in violation of every moral precept in the strictly Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During their clandestine love affair, the young couple had no idea that, more than a decade later, Ensaf's love for Raif would attract the attention of politicians from around the world as she mobilizes global public opinion in an effort to save her husband from death at the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"'I know no one ever believes us nowadays - everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It was all a well-kept secret. We believed it. We swallowed it. It seemed entirely plausible.' Brunhilde Pomsel described herself as an ̀apolitical girl' and a ̀figure on the margins'. How are we to reconcile this description with her chosen profession? Employed as a typist during the Second World War, she worked closely with one of the worst criminals...
