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  • Reptiles
    Sylvia Vetta
    Chief Inspector Ranjit Singh and Sergeant Kate Farr’s latest case drowns them into the dark waters of international politics. The scientist and gynaecologist Yasmin Bell’s mother is an Iranian feminist not popular with the regime. Serena Shriver, an influential Republican Christian Nationalist whose son, Gideon, is working on a D Phil in Theology at Oxford, organises harassing ...
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    19,00 €

  • Food of Love
    Sylvia Vetta
    One of only four girls from the 160 children in her primary school to pass the eleven plus, Sylvia Vetta was the first in her family to enjoy higher education and got to enjoy that post-WWII wonder: upward mobility.Battling racism in Smethwick in the West Midlands during the most racist election in British history changed her life. The slogan bandied by the supporters of the Co...
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    22,36 €

  • Not so Black and White
    Nancy Mudenyo Hunt / Sylvia Vetta
    This unforgettable book shows how empowerment transforms lives tackling issues of race, class and culture past and present in a way not done before and with hope for the future.Precious Mukosi swaps rural Kenya for cosmopolitan London, only to find her new home as tribal as the one she left behind. Not So Black and White is a compelling read. It shows how empowerment transforms...
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    14,73 €

  • Sculpting the Elephant
    Sylvia Vetta
    Harry King, artist and antiques dealer, thinks he has just made the worst purchase of his life – an enormous Victorian chest of drawers filled with ancient newspapers and bric-a-brac that now takes up half his shop. But when he trips over the beautiful historian Ramma Gupta, he realises he might have got more than he bargained for. Their story becomes entwined with the life of ...
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    22,32 €

  • Brushstrokes in Time
    Sylvia Vetta
    This superbly researched and beautifully told fictional memoir is about love, art, and Chinese history and politics."This is the book I struggled not to write. I buried the pain along with my Chinese name and changed my fate."Brushstrokes in Time is the fictional memoir of Chinese artist Little Winter, who tries to re-establish the bond with her American daughter, telling the s...
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    18,89 €