Abish Kekilbayev

One of present-day Kazakhstan's most venerated writers retails in bardic vein a prose ballad of ancient rivalry between his Kazakh forbears and Turkmen neighbours on their illimitable sun-scorched (or snow-carpeted) steppe, in unceasing nomadic contest for pasture, animals, and sometimes women.                                                                                    

Anthony Lejeune

This revised edition contains 3000 entries in Latin French German Italian and Spanish.

This is a sister publication to
Hartley's Foreign Phrases

                                                                                   

Tom Stacey

A life-long commitment to remotest Africa becomes a Book of the Year                                                                                                                              

Kim Winfield;  Paul Gillam (Illustrator)

Building on the success of the other 'Very Simple' titles, this charmingly direct and simple approach to language teaching introduces Mandarin Chinese to the newcomer.                                                                                                            

Edited by Youmna Asseily and Ahmad Asfahani

Of interest to students of Lebanon and Lebanese history, and to those interested in the history of the wider Middle East in the twentieth century.                                                                                                            

Mukhamet Shayakhmetov

Continues the compelling story of The Silent Steppe                                                                                                            

Pari Courtauld

A Persian Childhood is a humorous and tender evocation of a past age. An autobiographical account of life in Persia during the 1920s and 1930s as seen through a child's eyes.                                                                                                      

M V Seton-Williams

Egypt, enclosed as it is within desert borders and reliant on the river Nile, is in many ways unique.                                                                                                                        

Aidan Dodson

After the Pyramids looks at the funerary monuments of the kings of Egypt.                                                                                                                        

Aidan Dodson

Examines the funerary monuments of the kings of Egypt.