للتاريخ القديم ذاكرة لا تشيخ فقد كانت الأيام أنذاك تمر لكنها تُدَوَّن، وفي تاريخنا المعاصر فإن الأيام قد تساوت مع العدم و لهذا يموت أكثرنا في الأجساد قبل أن يموت في حيزٍ ضيِّق يُدعى – قبر – لكن من يدري .. لربما كانت للأموات كلمة أخرى في الداخل المليء بما لا يشتهون من الوحل والوسخ والأحشاء المجوفة في مراتع الديدان!

هذه أنا و هذا كتابي الأول
لا ارغب ان يزخرفني احد
ليقدمني الي اصدقائي الذين كبروا معي في القراءة لي
كما كبرت انا في الكتابة اليهم
فكلانا منح الاخر شيئا مهما لديه
منحتهم حروفي و منحوني وقتهم
فاذا كنت ممن كبروا معي
فانت في غني عن ثرثرة حروف
تقدمني اليك و تعرفك بي
و ان كنت قارئا جديدا فهذا الكتاب
بين يديك و هو خير مقدم و معرف بي .

دار كلمات للنشر و التوزيع . شهرزاد

“إن الأرض كلها أرض الرب، وأينما عشت حياةً طيبةً نافعة تحت أنظاره كانت تلك البقعة وطنك.”نُشرت رواية عائلة روبنسن السويسرية أول مرة باللغة الألمانية عام 1813، وترجمت إلى لغات عديدة منذ ذلك الوقت، واقتبست عنها أفلام ومسلسل أنمي ياباني من إنتاج استديو نيبون إنيميشن عام 1981، عرف في أرجاء الوطن العربي باسم فلونة روبنسن كروزو. بُنيت القصة على تقرير لقبطان سفينة روسية اكتشف في إحدى رحلاته البحرية عددًا من الجزر الخصيبة، وعند نزول البحارة على إحدى هذه الجزر وجدوا عائلة من أب وأم وأربعة أولاد، تحطمت سفينتهم ولم ينج منها أحد سواهم، فاتخذوا من الجزيرة موطنًا لهم. ماذا يفعل المرء إن ألقى به البحر إلى جزيرة لم يسكنها بشر قبله؟ وما الذي سيعتمل في صدره سوى الوحشة والكآبة والخوف؟ غير أنه سيدرك سريعًا أن عليه الاعتناء بنفسه، والحرص على ما يتوفر عنده من موارد. بل إنه يسعى إلى إعمار الأرض، بشكل أو بآخر، الأرض التي أنقذته.لسنا بحاجة أن يلقي بنا البحر إلى جزيرة مقفرة لنعمر الأرض، لكننا نحتاج إلى إعمار القلوب، قبل الأرض، بالحب والرأفة والحنان، “فالأرض الخضراء لا تغدو خضراء إلا بعزم الإنسان”.   

When one of their friends mysteriously disappears, a group of teens are forced to confront the challenges and secrets of their lives in this edgy and suspenseful coming-of-age tale from international supermodel, actress, and social media darling Cara Delevingne.

Among the students of Thames Comprehensive, Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits—outsiders who have found a safe haven in music and their band, Mirror, Mirror. For these sixteen year olds, fitting in at school is nearly as difficult as navigating their complicated home lives. Red has an alcoholic mother and a father who’s never around. Leo’s brother is in prison. Rose uses sex and alcohol to numb the pain of a brutal attack. Naomi’s punk rock princess persona gives her the freedom to be her true self.

When Naomi mysteriously vanishes and then is found unconscious, her friends are shaken and confused. Could it have been an accident—or did someone deliberately try to hurt Naomi? If she was in trouble, why didn’t she turn to them? How well do they really know their bandmate—and each other? If Naomi wakes up from her coma, will she ever be the same?

To understand what happened to Naomi, Red, Leo, and Rose must ultimately face their own dark secrets and fears, and reconcile the difference between what they feel inside and what they show to the world.

Cara Delevingne reveals another facet of her amazing talent with this powerful novel about identity, sexuality, gender, emotional pain, the complicated world of social media, and the dangerous weight of appearances that are not what they seem.

“The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it.” But will it finally toll for Sean Dillon & company in the explosive new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the ‘Prime Minister’s private army’, fresh from defeating a deadly al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning: ‘You may think you have weakened us, but you have only made us stronger.’ In Washington, D.C., a special projects director with the CIA, frustrated at not getting permission from the President for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake. Desperate men will act, secrets will be revealed – and the midnight bell will toll.

Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019

Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award

An Observer and Wall Street Journal Book of the Year 2019

‘Astonishing, staggering’ Ben Okri, Daily Telegraph

A groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West Africa

By the time of the ‘Scramble for Africa’ in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and Islamic world since around 1000, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts from Senegal down to Angola since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies – most importantly shells: the cowrie shells imported from the Maldives, and the nzimbu shells imported from Brazil.

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there’s ‘no point’ in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us. 64% of Brits want to drink less.

Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirligig of Drink, Make horrible decisions, Hangover, Repeat. She had her fair share of ‘drunk tank’ jail cells and topless-in-a-hot-tub misadventures. But this book goes beyond the binges and blackouts to deep-dive into uncharted territory: What happens after you quit drinking? This gripping, heart-breaking and witty book takes us down the rabbit-hole of an alternative reality. A life with zero hangovers, through sober weddings, sex, Christmases and breakups.

In The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, Catherine Gray shines a light on society’s drink-pushing and talks to top neuroscientists and psychologists about why we drink, delving into the science behind what it does to our brains and bodies. Much more than a tale from the netherworld of addicted drinking, this book is about the escape, and why a sober life can be more intoxicating than you ever imagined. Whether you’re a hopelessly devoted drinker, merely sober-curious, or you’ve already ditched the drink, you will love this book.