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A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
£13.95New from EnvelopeBooks – an important study in social anthropology A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean. The Andamans were […]
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A Sin of Omission
A Sin of Omission
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust. Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, […]
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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
£12.95Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time. But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in […]
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Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
£12.95Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun’s answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician’s son? Will Musa’s friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram’s attack on their village? The life of the underprivileged, […]
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Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
£19.95How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took […]
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Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
£12.95AN IMPORTANT NEW NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In late 1994, The New York Times sends a group of American journalists and Rwandan guides to a small village in Northern Rwanda to cover the atrocities that have killed nearly a million during the spring and summer. Some know each other already; others become acquainted as the assignment […]
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The Fine Young Men of Mexico
The Fine Young Men of Mexico
£14.95ANOTHER FINE NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Gallo left México when he was twenty-five and never looked back. Pushing fifty, he now returns for a reunion with his old school friends in Mérida, and finds they’ve barely moved on from the dysfunctional no-hopers they were in the past. In the course of an alcohol-fuelled weekend marked […]
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The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
£18.95Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime. When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
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Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
£18.95A SOCIOLOGICAL WORK FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the local networking app, the book reveals how a community talks to itself and what matters to it. As well as housing England’s national stadium, Wembley – the community under observation – is unusual in its […]
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Why My Wife Had to Die
Why My Wife Had to Die
£13.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their […]
