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A Gentle Madness
Humera Afridi
‘Pakistan is a nation of memory keepers. We feed our memories as if they are guests at tea, pay homage to them.’
A Guide to the City of Beirut
Fawwaz Traboulsi
‘In Beirut, a well reveals layer upon layer, generation after generation, of ruins.’
A Hand Made Art
Per Gedin
‘This new kind of ‘planned’ best-seller invariably influences every other form of book production, most notably that of the book selling.’
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
David Gates
‘It took longer and longer for the next one to come, and then there wasn’t a next one.’
A Handful of Walnuts
Ahmed Errachidi & Clive Stafford Smith
‘There was no horizon, no life and nothing to see.’
A Hippy Among Communists
Klaus Schlesinger
‘In March 1975, thirty years after the collapse of German fascism, N., a student from Berlin – bearded and long-haired – attended a series of lectures at a university on the Baltic coast.’
A History
William Cooper
‘She was fighting for breath, fighting to live, perhaps fighting not to leave us.’
A Job on the Line
Desmond Barry
‘The atmosphere in the house was thick with my father's depression.’
A Journey into Afghanistan
Peregrine Hodson
‘We had been travelling for a week, and had reached the territory of the Hesb Nasr: a rival group of mujahedin who were notorious for ambushing travellers, stealing their weapons and skinning their victims.’
