Set in Tower Hamlets, this contemporary novel of the life of an Asian immigrant girl draws you into a highly affecting world of love, fate and cultural conflict. It is the debut of a writer of huge talent.

Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with [...]

Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a word of english and confined to her flat. This title exlpores the role of fate in our lives and traces the transformation of an[...]

After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder Nazneen exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her hus[...]

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?' 'Misfits', he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job'. "In The Kitchen" is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel and over the course of the en[...]

Following her National Book Critics Circle and "Los Angeles Times" Book Award-nominated, bestselling debut, "Brick Lane," Monica Ali's splendid "Alentejo Blue" "rewards readers with characters who etch themselves into one's memory" ("People").
Set in a small Portuguese village, "Alentejo Blue" [...]

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehens[...]

When Princess Diana died in Paris's Alma tunnel, she was thirty-seven years old. Had she lived, she would have turned fifty on July 1, 2011. Who would the beloved icon be if she were alive today? What would she be doing? And where? One of the most versatile and bold writers of our time, Monica Ali h[...]

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Set in Tower Hamlets, this contemporary novel of the life of an Asian immigrant girl draws you into a highly affecting world of love, fate and cultural conflict. It is the debut of a writer of huge talent.

Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arran[...]

I den lilla byn Mamarrosa i Alentejo i Portugal drömmer den vackra Teresa om att resa ut i världen, allra helst till London. Hon har ännu inte fyllt tjugo och det är meningen att hon ska gifta sig med någon lämplig ung man från orten.

Familjen Potts kommer från England och har sl[...]

Tänk om prinsessan Diana lever!

Lek med tanken att prinsessan Diana inte alls dog, utan iscensatte sin död för att komma bort från det liv som hon avskydde och kunna börja om på nytt. Världens mest beundrade och samtidigt mest olyckliga kvinna, sviken av sin man och jagad av pres[...]