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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£17.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526649348 | ISBN 10: 1526649349
From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman. 'Meticulously written and deeply moving... A triumph' JACKIE KAY 'Full ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780753541548 | ISBN 10: 0753541548
In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discu ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552562119 | ISBN 10: 0552562114
‘Honour,’ I repeated, wondering how such a small word could have caused so much trouble. When Sat's sister, Jas, is married off into the Atwal family she changes, she's quiet and distant. But Sat's too busy with his own life; his girlfriend, ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566172 | ISBN 10: 0863566170
Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result ... more
View book details£22.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780787996390 | ISBN 10: 0787996394
Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a 'hot-blooded', spur-of-the-moment crime of pas ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099499596 | ISBN 10: 0099499592
In April 2002, Janine Latus' youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. 'If I am gone or dead', it read, 'question Ron'. By the time the letter was found, Amy was already missing. Helicopters and 'missing' poster ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780553816303 | ISBN 10: 0553816306
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family - a dishonour punishable by death. This was her crime, and her brother-in-law was given the task of ... more
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