There are Rivers in the Sky

There are Rivers in the SkyThe new novel from the Booker shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ***** There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris their lives all curiously

This pathbreaking book forces us to think about whether the wide-ranging way we use gentrification dilutes its meaning and stymies efforts to identify and resist urban displacement

Thought-provoking pieces of nonfiction exploring the crossroads of technology with art and science

discovering in it traces of the past half-century’s struggles over the absence of community and the form revolutionary activity should take

centred on environmental knowledge and traditional culinary practices by the Orang Asli communities in Peninsular Malaysia

and interviews

Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms rule to excavate the politics behind the newest form of managerial power

to laugh and to protest

Born in Palestine in 1936

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world

With erudition and brio

re-creates this masterpiece with fidelity and clarity

even if it continues to play an outsized role on the world stage