Books set in United Kingdom (395)
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Written in Bone by Sue Black EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to toe, via the teeth, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she delicately reverse engineers events, piecing together the evidence in our remains to discover thedetails of lives once lived. All that we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently in our bones for the forensic... continue
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Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford EN
NigeriaDescription:
"Yoruba Girl Dancing is at once acerbic and moving and painfully honest about the cost of emigration and adjustment."--The Washington Post Born into a privileged Nigerian family, Remi Foster has a life in Africa that is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and ritual. But at the age of six she is uprooted when her father sends her to a posh all-girls boarding school in England. There, the only black in a school of perfect English girls, she navigates the labyrinth of race, caste, and culture, enduring taunting classmates and foreign holidays celebrated with strangers. Finally, caught... continue
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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The brilliant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
394.
Zeit der Nordwanderung by Tajjib Salich DE
SudanDescription:
Tajjib Salichs erster Roman machte ihn über Nacht berühmt und das Buch wurde zum Kultbuch der arabischen Intellektuellen.
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Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn't begin to understand. But... continue