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The illuminated

Ghose, Anindita2023
Books, Manuscripts
After the sudden death of her celebrated husband, Shashi is alarmed to realise that overnight, she has lost her life's moorings. Meanwhile, their fiercely independent daughter Tara, a Sanskrit scholar, has been drawn into a passionate involvement with an older man, which threatens to consume her ...
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The impatient : a novel

Amadou Amal, Djaili2023
Books, Manuscripts
A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions - including polygamy and domestic abuse - that define and limit their lives.
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In memory of us

Roy, Jacqueline, 1954-2024
Books, Manuscripts
What does it mean to remember? Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora's relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s' and 60s' London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for her ow...
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In the shadows of love

Khan, Awais (Novelist)2024
Books, Manuscripts
To strangers that pass her on the streets of Lahore, Mona Ahmed lives a life to be envied. Married to wealthy businessman Bilal, with happily married children and living in a vast home with staff to attend to her every desire, she seems to want for nothing. But behind the gilded exterior lies a p...
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Keisha the sket

LB, Jade2022
Books, Manuscripts
Keisha is a girl from the ends, sharp, feisty and ambitious; she's been labelled 'top sket' but she's making it work. When childhood crush and long-time admirer, Ricardo, finally wins her over, Keisha has it all: power, a love life and the chance for stability. But trauma comes knocking and with ...
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Last summer on State Street

Wolfe, Toya2024
Books, Manuscripts
State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio - Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They have a simple friendship, ...
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The last white man

Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-2023
Books, Manuscripts
One 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 establishe...
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The last white man

Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-2022
Books, Manuscripts
One 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 establishe...
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The leftover woman

Kwok, Jean2023
Books, Manuscripts
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with n...
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The leftover woman

Kwok, Jean2024
Books, Manuscripts
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with n...
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