From New Jersey she went to Iran, where she abandoned her PhD on Jane Austen while fleeing the 1979 Revolution; then China and Saudi Arabia, before settling in Venice. There she began looking and thinking and drifting – and Commissario Brunetti ermerged from the lagoon on a weed-draped shell.
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978152915341521/09/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.
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Born into a farming family in the eastern Tibetan province of Kham, the author fled with his older brother following the Chinese invasion in 1959. He has spent many years in the UK and the U... read more
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A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) - and a magpie calle... read more
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Stroud is generous and honest company in this second book of memoir, this time about her first year of motherhood.
My Wild and Sleepless Nights
Hardback £16.99