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Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee …

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER`Magnificent' Mail on Sunday`Gripping' New York Times`A master storyteller' The Times`Epic' Sunday TelegraphTen-year-old Abdullah would do …

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Central Asia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what …

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘A suspenseful epic’ Daily Telegraph ‘A triumph’ Financial Times ‘Heartbreaking’ Mail on Sunday ‘Deeply moving’ Sunday Times Mariam is …

Text in Arabic. Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as …

Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually …

In 2010, Sarah Marquis embarked on a perilous journey: alone and on foot, she walked ten thousand miles across the Gobi Desert, from Siberia, through Thailand, to the Australian …

Bradt's Kyrgyzstan remains the only English-language guide dedicated solely to this astounding country, described as 'the Switzerland of central Asia' and regarded by many as the …

How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such …

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan …