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A deeply moving contemporary literary novel about illness, grief, invisible labour, migration, dignity and the long wait to be properly seen. Abdul Matin Choudhury has spent much of his life cleaning the rooms other people pass through: school corridors, hospital wards, staff toilets, waiting areas, floors polished before anyone arrives and dirt cleared before anyone notices. His work has always been quiet, necessary and almost invisible. On a wet Tuesday morning in York, Abdul goes to hospital for what he tells himself is only an appointment.

Before Elias Khoury became a case, he was a boy in an Ealing kitchen. He ate kibbeh with his family. He corrected his father’s English. He dried the dishes. He sang a Syriac prayer for the departed without knowing it would one day be sung for him. When Elias is killed on his way home, the Khoury family’s life is broken open. His mother Najwa is left holding the phone call that did not end when the line went dead. 

I failed her. I need to fix this. The only reason she is caught up in this mess is because of me: my pack, my enemies, my secrets I’ll stop at nothing to keep them from destroying the only thing that matters to me. My Mate. What I fear most is that my betrayal will be too much, and she’ll never forgive me.

Synopsis: MIND OF A MANIAC Simon Mayne, a fifty-eight-year-old retired criminal psychologist, lives in reclusive solitude in a dilapidated Victorian cottage at the end of Oak Lane, Hertfordshire, two years after his wife Mary's apparent suicide. Haunted by grief and increasingly isolated, Simon...

"CHANGES" is a poignant and inspiring tale of resilience, transformation, and the healing power of art. The story follows Travis Jacobs, a once-popular high school football star whose life takes a tragic turn after a life-altering accident.