Henry Hitchings is an award- winning writer, reviewer and critic. He has written for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, and is currently the Evening Standard's theatre critic. He is the author of several acclaimed books on language, literature and culture, including Dr Johnson's Dictionary and The Language Wars. In 2008, his book The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
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Henry Hitchings: Browse
A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Andrey Kurkov, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann A cabinet of curiosities, a time …
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Alaa al Aswany: Chicago
Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of …
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Alaa Al Aswany: Friendly Fire
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and Chicago Friendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of …
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Alaa Al Aswany: On the State of Egypt
On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s departure. This was the moment he and other …
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€13.00
Alaa Al Aswany: The Automobile Club of Egypt
Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide – Cairo”s European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them. The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply …
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Alaa Al Aswany: Automobile Club of Egypt
A rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, …
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€15.01
Al Aswany Alaa Al Aswany: Democracy is the Answer
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it-and try to push it in productive directions-than best-selling novelist and …
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Alaa Al Aswany: The Republic of False Truths
From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building'Glorious'Observer'Amazing' André Aciman'Masterly' Sunday Times'Blistering' Financial Times General Alwany …
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Lawrence Durrell: Balthazar
Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt, in Durrell's epic modern classic. Every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position … …
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Alaa Al Aswany: On the State of Egypt
The bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago turns his attention to current affairs in Egypt. In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class …
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€28.34
Alaa Al Aswany: Automobile Club Of Egypt
Abd el-Aziz, formerly a landowner but now in the grips of extreme poverty, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work in the storeroom of The Automobile Club. This is Egypt immediately after …
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€16.49
Alaa Al Aswany: Automobile Club of Egypt
A rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar fell into penury and moved his …
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€37.57
Al Aswany Alaa Al Aswany: Dictatorship Syndrome
The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their …
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