The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini, now out in paperback in a stunning new package

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

This volume offers an intimate portrait of Afghani people.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. This title presents an account of his walk across Afghanistan.

In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of The Kabul Beauty School

Exposes the differences between religiosity and dangerous religious extremism. This work present a portrait of life under a fascist theocracy.

The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.

An exploration of the overwhelming complexity of Afghan politics, this title explains how it came in to being, how it is sustained and how Osama bin Laden has risen to such a figure of absolute power.

Two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This book explains the link between these two occurrences. Moving from the secret chambers in CIA headquarters to stand-offs in the Khyber Pass, it is one of the vivid descriptions of CIA operations.

Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by the Taliban soldiers. Parvana, her mother, and sisters must stay inside. Four days later, the food runs out. So Parvana must pretend to be a boy to save her family. In fear she goes out - and witnesses the horror of land mines, and the brutality of the Taliban. But even in despair lies hope.

Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from the world, this book presents an account of the authors winter journey through the country torn by civil war. It recounts the author's daring investigation into an extraordinary culture as a clandestine guest of the mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation.

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A poignant first-hand account of life for a young Afghani woman under the Taliban. Born into an educated, middle-class family in Kabul, Latifa's world changed from the moment the Taliban seized power there in 1996. She reveals her helplessness and despair, and her own defiance under the regime.

The story of the author's journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul.

The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan.

As a young reporter, Christina Lamb risked all to experience the real Afghanistan. This memoir recounts her return, years later, as she unmasks a cross-section of its society, from torturers and war victims to women who must still hide behind a facade of propriety.

In 1933, Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Here he recounts his adventures.

Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre. Love, hatred and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to guerrila warfare in Afghanistan.

The moving story of an indomitable Afghan woman, Shirin-Gol, who rebelled against life within a forced marriage, spent behind the walls of her house, and who wanted an education for her children so that they might have the chance to live free from the fear and poverty she had known since girlhood.