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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri
    Partition Voices: Untold British Stories - by Kavita Puri

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638403 | ISBN 10: 1526638401

    UPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION  'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera   'The most humane account of partiti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan by Owen Bennett-Jones
    The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan - by Owen Bennett-Jones

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264739 | ISBN 10: 0300264739

    A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day.   The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation by Declan Walsh
    The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation - by Declan Walsh

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408868492 | ISBN 10: 1408868490

    The demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely turn out as expected, as renowned journalist Declan Walsh knows well.   Over a decade covering the co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
    Meatless Days - by Sara Suleri

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342466 | ISBN 10: 0241342465

    "Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read"(Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction) Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight by Maria Toorpakai
    A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight - by Maria Toorpakai

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509800810 | ISBN 10: 1509800816

    "Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own ... more

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  • Cover image of book I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
    I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474602112 | ISBN 10: 1474602118

    The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.  I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.   When the Taliban to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man by Ali Eteraz
    Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man - by Ali Eteraz

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780061626852 | ISBN 10: 0061626856

    Ali Eteraz’s award-winning memoir reveals the searing spiritual story of growing up in Pakistan under the specter of militant Islamic fundamentalism and then overcoming the culture shock of emigrating to the United States.   A gripping me ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia
    Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River - by Alice Albinia

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055

    One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Scott-Levy and Catherine Clark
    Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy - by Adrian Scott-Levy and Catherine Clark

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843545354 | ISBN 10: 1843545357

    Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda.  It also reveals the much larger deception: how every Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughter of the East: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
    Daughter of the East: An Autobiography - by Benazir Bhutto

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847390851 | ISBN 10: 1847390854

    Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 - Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approachin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto by Zahid Hussain
    Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto - by Zahid Hussain

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845118020 | ISBN 10: 1845118022

    Pakistan has been home to the world's most dangerous terrorists. Osama Bin Laden himself is believed to be hiding close to its border. After 9/11, Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, took an astonishing about-turn, and pledged his s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of the Nuclear Shadow by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian (Editors)
    Out of the Nuclear Shadow - by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian (Editors)

    £21.95   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781842770597 | ISBN 10: 1842770594

    Outraged conscience, careful arguement, poetry, political analysis - gathered here is the diversity of voices, traditions, approaches, that are weaving themselves into an anti-nuclear and peace movement in India and Pakistan. In these essays, written ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament by Pratful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik
    New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament - by Pratful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781902669250 | ISBN 10: 1902669258

    The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashmir into a potentially n ... more

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