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Bloomsbury presents The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami, read by Neil Shah. * Winner of the American Book Award * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 * A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * 'An absorbing story' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Rich, vivid and gripping' GUARDIAN 'Feels at once...

Brought to you by Penguin. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that...

Joost (29) is bandagist. Hij ontfermt zich over de zieke benen van ouderen in Amsterdam, de stad die hem en zijn vrienden geen woning kan bieden. Het contrast tussen zijn zwervende bestaan en dat van zijn patiënten, die zijn gebonden aan hun grote en volgestouwde huizen, wordt steeds groter. De bandagist is een roman over eenzaamheid en geborgenheid, over herinneren en vergeten.

A hauntingly beautiful pre-sunrise dawn assaults Frank Dole's senses as he sets out on an early morning surfcasting ritual at a remote shoreline near his summer home. Tiring of the repetitive casting out and reeling in, he wanders aimlessly along the shore and is soon confronted by a mirage both real and alive — a mysterious young woman stretched out on a green towel near the dunes.