Translator (Aboulela Leila)(Paperback / softback)

Translator (Aboulela Leila)(Paperback / softback)

Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Estranged from her son, she drifts, grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world and

Minaret (Aboulela Leila)(Paperback / softback)

A unique novel about the life of an orthodox Muslim woman forced into a new life in

Bird Summons (Aboulela Leila)(Paperback / softback)

An enchanting, deeply felt portrait of three women searching for freedom, from the three-times Orange Prize longlisted, Scottish Book Award and Caine Prize winner Leila

Elsewhere Home (Aboulela Leila)(Paperback)

Short stories at their most moving and immediate; this new collection from prize-winning author Leila Aboulela spans twenty years of her

How to Feel Confident - Simple Tools for Instant Success (Lowndes Leil)(Paperback / softback)

Leil Lowndes, internationally renowned life coach and bestselling author of How To Talk to Anyone, reveals how you can shine even in the most gruelling social

How to Make Anyone Like You - Proven Ways to Become a People Magnet (Lowndes Leil)(Paperback / softback)

From internationally renowned relationships expert Leil Lowndes comes this easy-to-read blend of tips, tricks and advice to charm anyone. This is the ultimate guide to the art of charming everyone you

Leila (Akbar Prayaag)(Paperback)

Arturo's Island (Morante Elsa)(Paperback / softback)

A moving Italian coming-of-age classic in a new translation by Ann Goldstein, celebrated translator of Elena

All the Rivers (Rabinyan Dorit)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting love story between a young Israeli translator and a Palestinian

Lullaby (Slimani Leila)(Paperback / softback)

They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties. The couple and nanny become more

Final Passage (Phillips Caryl)(Paperback / softback)

Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael and her young son with

Illuminations (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback / softback)

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and

Let's Get Lost (Alsaid Adi)(Paperback / softback)

One girl could change four lives forever... Mysterious Leila, who is on the road trip of a lifetime, has a habit of crashing into people's worlds at the moment they need someone the

The Translator of Desires: Poems (Sells Michael)(Paperback)

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this

Daughter from the Dark (Dyachenko Marina)(Paperback / softback)

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and

Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers (riverrun editions) (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

In this collection the translator and the scientist come together in a rich, engrossing

Taken (Stone Lisa)(Paperback)

The gripping new USA Today bestselling thriller from Lisa StoneHave you seen Leila?8-year-old Leila Smith has seen and heard things that no child should ever have to. On the Hawthorn Estate, where she lives, she often stays out after dark to avoid going home.But what Leila doesn't know is that

Poems of Alexandria and New York (Morsi Ahmed)(Paperback / softback)

Ahmed Morsi is a renowned painter as well as a prolific art critic, journalist, translator, and, as this book reveals to a new audience, a consummate poet, with his debut collection published at the age of 19. Poems of Alexandria and New York, Ahmed Morsi's first volume in English translation,

This Song Will Save Your Life (Sales Leila)(Paperback / softback)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist: an isolated teen finds herself - and romance - through

Empire's End - A Roman Story (Voices #4) (Rasheed Leila)(Paperback / softback)

Voices: Empire's End - A Roman Story tells the story of a young North African girl who is separated from her family and must navigate life in Roman

Maison Rouge: Memories of a Childhood in War (Juma Liliane Leila)(Paperback)

Leila Liliane Juma was sixteen years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart by the twin nightmares of civil war and invasion. Sincere

A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Adler David A.)(Paperback)

She joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a translator and

The Golden Ass (Apuleius)(Paperback)

Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of The Golden Ass breathes new life into Apuleius's classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator,

A Window Left Open (Saarikoski Pentti)(Paperback)

Pentti Saarikoski was a prolific translator and journalist, and a revered modernist poet central to the Finnish literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. The inventiveness, warmth and humour of Saarikoski's voice have made him something of a national treasure in Finland. His writing is at once playful