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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264739 | ISBN 10: 0300264739
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day. Â The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408868492 | ISBN 10: 1408868490
The demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely turn out as expected, as renowned journalist Declan Walsh knows well. Over a decade covering the co ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342466 | ISBN 10: 0241342465
"Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read"(Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction) Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the a ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509800810 | ISBN 10: 1509800816
"Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474602112 | ISBN 10: 1474602118
The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban. I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban to ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241960073 | ISBN 10: 024196007x
Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban, charts the latest developments in the dangerous trajectory of one of the world's most strategically important, and volatile, countries - and the effects on its neighbours and us all. What ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088881 | ISBN 10: 184408888x
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 - and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780061626852 | ISBN 10: 0061626856
Ali Eteraz’s award-winning memoir reveals the searing spiritual story of growing up in Pakistan under the specter of militant Islamic fundamentalism and then overcoming the culture shock of emigrating to the United States. A gripping me ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847393746 | ISBN 10: 1847393748
Pakistan stands on the front line of the war against terror. Yet this long-time ally of the West, whose links with the US have caused enormous friction within the country, is in deepening crisis. As President Pervez Musharraf struggles to cling to po ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843545354 | ISBN 10: 1843545357
Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every Ameri ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847390851 | ISBN 10: 1847390854
Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 - Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approachin ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845118020 | ISBN 10: 1845118022
Pakistan has been home to the world's most dangerous terrorists. Osama Bin Laden himself is believed to be hiding close to its border. After 9/11, Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, took an astonishing about-turn, and pledged his s ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer. The wellspring of ... more
View book details£21.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781842770597 | ISBN 10: 1842770594
Outraged conscience, careful arguement, poetry, political analysis - gathered here is the diversity of voices, traditions, approaches, that are weaving themselves into an anti-nuclear and peace movement in India and Pakistan. In these essays, written ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781902669250 | ISBN 10: 1902669258
The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashmir into a potentially n ... more
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