In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.

Tells the story of a father and daughter. This book also tells the story of a menage a trois. It explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should sleeping arrangements be in a menage a trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous?

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside feuding to save their engineer father from gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths secrets and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget.

An Enthralling True Story of Shipwreck, Exploration and Discovery in the Middle East. This engrossing travelogue begins with the terrifying account of the storm that left Eric Hansen and four companions shipwrecked on a deserted Red Sea island. A witty, vivid mix of reportage, comedy and tension. Simultaneous publication with the paperback edition of Eric Hansen's acclaimed 'Orchid Fever' and 'Str

Rushby was drawn back to the Yemen by memories of ancient cities, spectacular mountains and most of all, the dreamy afternoons spent chewing the stimulant leaf of the qat tree. This is the story of a journey, but it also unveils the rich and varied culture surrounding the drug, qat.

This study combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years. It examines the values that tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states.