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لا تقدم هذه الرواية فقط توثيقًا لروائع “الست” (أم كلثوم)، وإنما هي محاولة جديَّة لرسم سرديَّة جديدة لأغنياتها التي باتت في دماء الشعب العربي بأكمله؛ كجزء من الهويَّة المصرية والعربية. كما نرى في هذه الرواية جمهور “الست” العريض كجزء أصيل من الحكاية والسرديَّة التي يقدمها لنا الكاتب والصحفي (شريف صالح). “الست” التي كان صوتها وما زال يمثّل الموسيقي التصويرية لكافة مشاعرنا في الحياة، هي ملاذ العاشقين ومن تداوي من أصابهم الهجر والفقدان. فنحن جميعًا بشكل أو بآخر من عالم “مجانين أم كلثوم”! وهذه…

'George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSA victim with no enemies. A murder with no motive.When the body of a monk is found savagely beaten in woodland near Bristol, DS George Cross discovers that nothing is known about the man's past.How can he unpick a crime when he doesn't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?His past reveals that he had no enemies, although George learns he was exceedingly wealthy, that he sacrificed…

No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses.For days, George Cross notices the same woman sitting patiently in the reception of the Bristol Crime Unit. Eventually, he asks her why.She wants to talk about her daughter's death, officially ruled a suicide after a long history of drug abuse. But the mother insists she was rebuilding her life and had been clean for years. She knows this wasn't suicide – someone did this to her daughter.George doesn't operate on hunches or gut feelings, he simply…

When a weather-beaten body is found on Clifton Downs, the police are quick to dismiss it as a quarrel among the unhoused community.DS George Cross knows how it feels to be overlooked. Unwilling to do the same to others, he sets out to find out what really happened to the dead man.As George learns about a life that slowly unravelled, his investigation leads him to a decades-old murder. The question is how are the two deaths linked – and who killed each victim?If anyone can find the answers, it's…

A heartwarming and authentic story that explores family, religion and fighting for what's right, from award-winning author Adiba Jaigirdar.Aspiring journalist Nadia Islam hates that she's missing out on spending Ramadan with her best friend to go to Bangladesh. But the trip unexpectedly puts her reporting skills to the test.Her journalist aunt - Nadia's khalamoni - is in Bangladesh too, but not just for Ramadan or Eid, like Nadia. She's there to write a story on the increasing climate change…

How can I live a good life? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there? These are some of life’s biggest questions. But they can be hard to think through. Fortunately, a group of philosophers from ancient Greece and Rome have already done a lot of the heavy lifting. Drawing on the philosophies, life lessons and experiences of key thinkers, Live Like a Philosopher will help you navigate these existential waters with invaluable insights for modern life. From finding balance with…

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. But the killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last words: bat eater.

Remember when talking about money was taboo? Times have changed and in our times, with so many radical and disruptive changes to the economy, the role of the entrepreneur now embedded at the centre of so much societal and technological change, and digital currencies changing the way we think about exchange, money has become a vital, insistent of conversation for everyone. All of us acknowledge it matters desperately; yet so few of us really understand it. The press and social media are awash…

"Dr Courtney gifts us with her inspirational journey of self-discovery to help us understand ourselves and to overcome our own self-defeating habits, humanzing the journey for us all" DR NICOLE LEPERA, bestselling author of HOW TO DO THE WORK A groundbreaking guide showing us how being "out of control" (and admitting it) is the first step to living a truly better, more meaningful life. Raise your hand if you've ever wanted to "self-improve" but, for some reason, you just can't follow…