Shadows At Noon
By: Joya Chatterji
4.22
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'The story of South Asia told with verve, wi…
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1. In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices in Pakistan
By: Haroon Khalid
4.15
Format: None pages,
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2. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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3. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
6. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
7. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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8. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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9. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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10. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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11. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
12. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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13. Hunted
By: Abir Mukherjee
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more
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14. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
15. Intervals
By: Marianne Brooker
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more
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16. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
By: Howard W. French
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more
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17. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
18. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
By: Manisha Sinha
4.23
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of thi… read more
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19. Shadows At Noon
By: Joya Chatterji
4.22
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'The story of South Asia told with verve, wi… read more
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20. People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
By: Hashi Mohamed
4.34
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
A New Statesman Book of the YearAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK'Hashi Mohamed powerfully… read more
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"The situation is hardly improved by the closures of youth facilities and libraries – since 2010, a staggering 478 libraries have closed in England, Scotland and Wales. It’s unsurprising, therefore, t…"-Hashi Mohamed, People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
21. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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