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Brick Lane
By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
2022 || Paperback || Monica Ali || Transworld
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' Sunday TimesStill in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband.
Confined in her tiny flat, Nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons...
Almost English
2014 || Paperback || Charlotte Mendelson || Macmillan
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . .
In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel ...
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Handboek voeding
2019 || Paperback || Ann Meulemans e.a. || Acco
In het 'Handboek voeding' krijg je een uitgebreid overzicht van de basisconcepten en principes van humane voedingsleer. In elk deel van het boek komt telkens een andere nutriënt van voeding aan bod.
Het eerste deel van het boek start met de algemene aspecten van de voedingsleer. Daarna wordt er dieper ingegaan op de verschillende macronutriënten, zoals lipiden en proteïnen en de verschillende micronutriënten, zoals vitaminen en mineralen. Bioactieve stoffen - stoffen in onze voeding waarv...
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Lost in translation
A cultural compass
2025 || Paperback || Alaa Dusky || Brave New Books
Discover. Heal. Rise.
Being a woman of colour in a world that constantly tries to define you is exhausting — but this book is your reminder that you get to define yourself.
In this bold, heartfelt guide, ''Lost in translation'' invites women of colour on a transformative journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. With unflinching honesty and tender wisdom, it explores what it means to reclaim your identity, to find a balance between your cultural upbringing and the outside world, ...
Blindness
2013 || Paperback || Jose Saramago || Vintage Publishing
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind.
The House on Mango Street
1991 || Paperback || Sandra Cisneros || Random House
The bestselling coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world from the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometim...
QualityLand / Helle Ausgaben
2019 || Paperback || Marc-Uwe Kling || Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag
Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Mens...
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The Bottle Factory Outing
50th Anniversary Edition
2023 || Paperback || Beryl Bainbridge || Little, Brown Book Group
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the ObserverWith a new introduction by Amanda CraigFreda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing materialises it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexpected passions run high on the chilly day of liberty and their lives are never the same again.
Beryl Bainbridge dazzles readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious...
Memphis
2023 || Paperback || Tara M. Stringfellow || John Murray Press
A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book ReviewFAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. AND TEAR YOU APART. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis.
She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night or the smell of honeysuckle as she climbs the porch steps to her aunt's house. But when the front door opens, she immediately remembers her cousin Derek. As Joan learns more about her family's past she discovers she's not the only North woman to have experienced ...
Train Dreams
2023 || Paperback || Denis Johnson || Granta Books
'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael OndaatjeRobert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.
Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation. Rich and muscular, sweep...