Blood & Oil

Blood & OilBy: Manucher Farmanfarmaian, Roxane Farmanfarmaian PEN West Award Finalist " Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is a marvelous introduction." Fred Halliday, Los Angeles Times Iran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth

- Minoan religion

a submarine engineer

touring the world and charming the world with his exuberant zest for life

Children aged 9+ can enjoy reading about early art right through to present day

Ruby's parents send her to a brutal 'rehabilitation camp' where she'll learn to suppress her new power

and suddenly she is forced to learn another language

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she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered

Shevek's work promises a breakthrough that could alter the course of human civilisation

The Whispers is a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a major fiction talent

2 paper boats

from Britain