A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems***THE***NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE'Astonishing' Zadie Smith'Stunning' Spectator'Extraordinary' TLSAn extraordinary story of lo...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAn award-winning, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Riz Ahmed and Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . 'So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invit...

Fever is one of the most common reasons parents seek medical advice, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood symptoms in childhood.Written by consultant paediatrician Dr Zuhier Hamid, Fever in Children provides a clear, practical, and reassuring guide for parents, caregivers, medical students, and healthcare professionals. The book explains what fever really is, why it happens, how to measure it correctly, and when urgent medical attention may be needed.Using ...

From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover.Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an ...

A captured spy.A woman looking for redemption.A national security advisor trying to hold his country together.When a captured spy reveals the presence of a mole within the intelligence establishment, it is left to Constantine D'Souza, an ex-police officer and a man forgotten by time, to lead the hunt. In a world of shadows, where lying is an art and betrayal is currency, will D'Souza be able to unearth the mole in time?

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern AsiaIn this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse.The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-he...

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radioactive water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Like a Grimm's fairy tale, this story transfo...

Rethinking Business and Management offers a timely and critical examination of how business and management are being reshaped by digitalization, globalization, and deep socio-economic change. As contemporary capitalism becomes increasingly driven by intangible assets, data, digital platforms, and financial power, this book challenges conventional assumptions about how markets, organizations, and managerial authority operate.Bringing together insights from ...

The Book of Knowledge is the foundation of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences, Imam al-Ghazali's magnum opus. In the Book of Knowledge, he defines knowledge, its relation to faith, theology, and jurisprudence. The book deals with the virtue of knowledge from both rational and traditional points of view. It elucidates the types of knowledge and the nature of people's obligation to seek knowledge. Imam al-Ghazali defines jurisprudence and theology as branches of Islamic...

The Mysteries of the Human Soul is the English translation of Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's al-Madnun Bihi 'Ala Ghairi Ahlihi — a work whose title itself signals its nature: truths entrusted only to those fit to receive them. Written in the form of an extended philosophical inquiry structured as questions posed by sincere seekers and answered by al-Ghazali, this text ventures into terrain few Islamic scholars dared map openly: the metaphysical constitution ...

This book displays two fundamental arguments from al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers. He goes into depth refuting claims of fellow philosophers of his time.

When Adam steps off a dusty bus into the silence of Merzouga's golden dunes, he is searching for escape. What he finds instead is a desert storm that strips him of everything — and a tribe of strangers whose warmth and wisdom rebuild him from within.Adam in the Heart of Merzouga is a short but powerful adventure story set in the heart of Morocco's Sahara. Through survival, starlit nights, and the ancient rituals of desert life, Adam discovers that getting lost was never a mistake — ...