In the heart of London, the American-owned Brain Chip Technology Research and Development Institute or BCTRDI has started a clandestine and unethical project. Their ultimate goal is the form of human control: the remote manipulation of human behavior via an implanted brain chip. To test their prototype, they require an ideal subject, someone of strong moral character whose breakdown would demonstrate the chip's designer power. They find their victim in Lee Wan, a respectable British oil me...

WINNER of the Polari First Book Prize 2021WINNER of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/BiographyA Dutiful Boy is Mohsin's personal journey from denial to acceptance: a revelatory memoir about the power of love, belonging, and living every part of your identity.Growing up in a devout Muslim household, it felt impossible for Mohsin to be gay. Unable to be open with his family, and with difficul...

P: Who is the real terrorist in this room?M: What're you saying?In a claustrophobic concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. But this is no ordinary interrogation, and as they talk deep into the night and violent secrets are revealed, the line between interrogator and confessor begins inextricably to blur. Who, then, is the real terrorist? And will they pay for their guilt in blood?

Sexual harassment is in the news almost every day. Countless women have been intimidated into silence or their careers and lives have been ruined because they refused to submit to unwanted sexual advances. Yet, sexual harassment coupled with corruption is not singularly an American affliction. It’s an ancient disease, a truly universal tale. Dr. Raana Mahmood's story, Courage to Stay No, is a narrative of standing up against sexual corruption in her home country of Pakistan. It ep...

Don’t Panic!:)This Book is Perfect for You!I’m an absolute beginner. Can I understand this book?Yes! This book is made for beginners, even if you don’t know a single word yet.How will I learn if I don’t know the language?You’ll learn through immersion. This means you’ll see the language used in real situations, like saying hello, or asking for directions. It’s how people naturally learn to speak - jus...

A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017 How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can't trust the media any longer, but there's no need to fret: Don't Panic, I'm Islamic: Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door provides you with the answers. Read this book to learn how you too can spot an elusive Islamist. Discover how Arabs (even 21-year-old, largely innocuou...

In these upside down times we could all use a good laughLAUGHS AND LESSONS for REAL ESTATE AGENTS brings you COMIC RELIEF. For those of you who are wonderingwhat are all those real estate folks thinking? Let Molly (the agent) and her dog Homer (who thinks he is an agent) show you the way to a real estate world where anything can happen! So agents, put a smile on your face and get out the door. There is humor in the most surprising places!

Abdallah’s encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami’s moving search for his lost fiancée in Jerusalem closes the collection. In between, Issa J. Boullata’s stories show what it’s like to be an Arab from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Egypt making a new life as an immigrant in Canada or the United States. This is what it is, to be displaced. This is what it is to leave your home and start over in a n...

THE LAST ROSE OF ISTANBULGiorgio Astori, ex manager of a multinational, looking for a job since a couple of years and divorced since few months, is employed, for managing its Turkish subsidiary, by Antares, a new, still small but fast growing industrial group operating in the field of biotechnologies. Ali Kamat, ex member of a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary group, passed, after several painful vicissitudes, to a ramified Islamic organization devoted to terrorism, is trained, in Afgh...

The new verbatim drama from the pioneering team behind Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Freedom.Over the last twelve months headlines have been dominated by the growth of Islamic State, and terror attacks claimed by IS have spread across the world.What is the entity that calls itself Islamic State? Why are some young Muslim men and women from across Western Europe leaving their homes to answer the call of Jihad? And what should we do about it?This piece of verbati...

This book provides several reasons as to why the movement so called "Black LLives Matter" is hypocritical.

Memoirs of a Lagos Taxi Driver is a collection of funny, fast paced and engaging short stories written by Africa's Flash Fiction Queen, Tolulope Popoola.Lagos, the city where the roads are wild, the traffic is merciless, and every ride is an adventure waiting to happen.Meet Oladipupo, or Ladi for short, an ex-banker turned ride-hailing driver, navigating the unpredictable streets of Nigeria's most chaotic city. Armed with ...