Apricots Tomorrow
Part of the popular Proverb Series, Apricots Tomorrow is a selection of sayings from the Gulf region and joins its sister titles, The Son of a Duck is a Floater and Unload your own Donkey.
These collections of popular wisdom, wittily illustrated by the cartoonist Kathryn Lamb, are books to browse through, smile at and learn from.
Each book contains over 100 proverbs from all over the Arab world. Primrose Arnander and Ashkhain Skipwith are both formerly resident in the Middle East.
In hardback.
Unload Your Own Donkey
Part of the popular proverb series, Unload your own Donkey is a selection of sayings from the Gulf region and joins its sister titles, Apricots Tomorrow and The Son of a Duck is a Floater.
These collections of popular wisdom, wittily illustrated by the cartoonist Kathryn Lamb, are books to browse through, smile at and learn from. Each book contains over 100 proverbs from all over the Arab world. Primrose Arnander and Ashkhain Skipwith are both formerly resident in the Middle East.
In hardback.
Don’t Toss Granny in the Begonias
Continuing the popular series of proverbs from around the world, each paired with an English equivalent, Don’t Toss Granny in the Begonias sheds amusing and often intriguing light on the perhaps justly notorious rivalry between the French and the English.
In hardback and paperback.
You Can’t Get Blood Out of a Turnip
Continuing the popular series of proverbs from around the world, each paired with an English equivalent, You Can’t Get Blood Out of a Turnip is a gathering of Italian proverbs. In hardback.
Sicilian Shadows
The compelling memoir of a young boy’s struggle for survival in the heartland of the Mafia. It is a story of tragic young love and centuries-old hatreds told with wry humour and brutal honesty. No-one from that region with the author’s connections or perspective has ever written about what it was really like: names, times and places have been changed (to protect the innocent and, in many cases, the guilty), but these events and experiences really happened. In paperback. Hardback out of stock.
Demography: Putting Politics in its Place
Where Democracy Goes Next
Every day, all around you, you see democracy running into a dead end. In this little book, Denis Becket sums up succinctly what you will shortly perceive to be the outstandingly obvious path to making democracy work – for everyone, everywhere. That is into the hands of “the multitude who do not attend the rallies, do not wear the T-shirts, do not shout the slogans and cannot spell ideolagy. Make them the flywheel of sane politics, the big inanimate force that imposes stability on the whirring busy parts.”
In paperback and eBook
Hidden In The Sands: Uncovering Qatar’s Past (English)
The first book of its kind to be published for a general readership from youngsters upwards, Hidden in the Sands: Uncovering Qatar’s Past is the fascinating, fun and educational story of Qatar’s heritage and the exciting discoveries being made by archaeologists.
This informative and delightful book is published through the generosity of Maersk Oil as part of its programme to support education and unlock Qatar’s history and heritage.
Also available in Arabic
In paperback
Hidden In The Sands: Uncovering Qatar’s Past (Arabic)
The first book of its kind to be published for a general readership from youngsters upwards, Hidden in the Sands: Uncovering Qatar’s Past is the fascinating, fun and educational story of Qatar’s heritage and the exciting discoveries being made by archaeologists.
This informative and delightful book is published through the generosity of Maersk Oil as part of its programme to support education and unlock Qatar’s history and heritage.
Also available in English
In paperback
Asil: Photographic Studies of the Purebred Arabian Horse
With Asil: Photographic Studies of the Purebred Arabian Horse, Tariq Dajani presents a series of beautifully observed and mastered photographs. These poetic portraits contain an elusive quality that draws the eye in, as he attempts to penetrate further into the nature and personalities of his subjects…
In hardback.
Greenwich and the London River
The year 2012 was a momentous one for Great Britain: London hosts the Olympic Games and the Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. Greenwich with its long royal associations has been granted Royal Borough status and is the venue of many Olympic events…
In paperback