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Iraanse geschiedenis, Iran

Roy P. Mottahedeh – The Mantle of the Prophet

Roy P. Mottahedeh The Mantle of the Prophet review and information book about religion and politics in Iran. Oneword will publish the book about the originins of the 1979 Islamic Revolution written by Roy P. Mottahedeh on July 9, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Roy P. Mottahedeh The Mantle of the Prophet

The Mantle of the Prophet

Religion and politics in Iran

  • Author: Roy P. Mottahedeh (United States)
  • Book type: history of Iran
  • Publisher: Oneworld
  • To be released: July 9, 2026
  • Length: 432 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 10.99
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Blurb of the Roy P. Mottahedeh book on Religion and Politics in Iran

Only six years after the revolution, the late Harvard professor of history Roy P. Mottahedeh set out to answer this question. Drawing on more than two millennia of Iranian history, fourteen centuries of Shi’i scholarship, and the intellectual challenges of modernity, he traced the deep currents that gave the revolution its force. From lectures on Aristotle in Qom’s seminaries to SAVAK’s prisons and the bustle of the bazaars, Mottahedeh illuminates how the revolution was shaped by Iranian society and how it reshaped the nation in turn.

The Mantle of the Prophet offers a rare account of the revolution and its aftermath as they were lived and endured. As the future of the Islamic Republic once again hangs in the balance, Mottahedeh’s classic study has lost none of its relevance. It remains a powerful testament to a society marked by sacrifice, conviction and an unfinished struggle for freedom.

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, born July 3, 1940 was the Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard from 1987 to 1990 and as Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard from 2006 to 2011. His first book, Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society, gained him a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he was among the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. His history of modern Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet, is an international bestseller which has been translated into numerous languages, and both this and his translation of Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence by Muhammad Baqir As-Sadr are also available from Oneworld. He died July 30, 2024.

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Damien Pearse – Till I Die

Damien Pearse Till I Die review and information book about why football means everything (even when it shouldn’t). Oneword will publish the book written by Damien Pearse about the ecstasy, anguish and unshakable loyalty that make football more than a game, on September 3, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Damien Pearse Till I Die reviews and information

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  • “A book for anyone who has ever screamed at a television.” (Adam Alter, author)
  • “A thought-provoking, funny and ultimately heartbreaking book about how football fandom can evoke our most painful emotions.” (Dr Gwen Adshead, author)

Damien Pearse Till I Die

Till I Die

Why Football Means Everything (Even When It Shouldn’t)

  • Author: Damien Pearse (England)
  • Book type: footbal book, psychology book
  • Publisher: Oneworld
  • To be released: September 3, 2026
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 9.99
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Blurb of the book on football written by psychologist Damien Pearse

Inside the ecstasy, anguish and unshakable loyalty that make football more than a game.

Dr Damien Pearse is a level-headed man. A psychologist, he spends his days encouraging patients to adopt a calmer, more grounded approach to life. And yet on match days all this unravels. He becomes anxious, panicked, sometimes belligerent, and if things go well for Wolves, manically ecstatic. And he is not alone – wander through any British town centre on a Saturday night and watch as the aftershocks of wins and losses spill out into the real world. Football means so much to so many.

Pearse meets with superfans, scientists, players and trolls, uncovering what drives our unwavering obsession with football. Examining ideas of identity, belonging, shame, modern masculinity and the most extreme acts of football fanaticism, Till I Die offers a poignant reappraisal of an enduring national pastime and passion.

Dr Damien Pearse is a chartered psychologist specialising in trauma. Before training as a psychologist, Damien was one of the Press Association’s youngest specialist reporters, working as their crime correspondent. During his time there he covered football hooliganism at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 Euro Championships. He then went on to work for the Guardian and Sky News. Despite living in Hastings, he is a lifelong Wolves supporter.

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Peter Sahlins – Neanderthals Among Us

Peter Sahlins Neanderthals Among Us review and information boek about the making of a prehistoric human written by the American historian. Oneword will publish the book about Neanderthals as they existed not in prehistory but in our modern imagination written by Pater Sahlins on October 1, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A rich and thorough study of Neanderthals as they existed not in prehistory but in our modern imagination.” (Angela Saini, author)

Peter Sahlins Neanderthals Among Us

Neanderthals Among Us

The Making of a Prehistoric Human

  • Author: Peter Sahlins (United States)
  • Book type: AHistory Books
  • Publisher: Oneworld
  • To be released: October 1, 2026
  • Length: 448 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 25.00 / £ 12.99
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Blurb of the book by Peter Sahlins on the Neaderthals

Why are we so obsessed with a group of archaic humans who disappeared 40,000 years ago?

Brutish ancestor or noble cousin, stupid ape-man or compassionate kinsman, vanquished species or relict survivor… Ever since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossils in 1856, we have struggled to make sense of our Palaeolithic double, just as we have used them to reflect on ourselves. Neanderthals Among Us brings together an accessible history of how we have imagined Neanderthals, from scientific debates over human origins to representations of race, gender and prehistory in popular culture.

Drawing on a wide range of sources – including the medieval Wild Man figure, nineteenth-century racial science, museum reconstructions, horror films, science fiction, the rise and fall of the Neanderthal insult and genetic ancestry testing – Peter Sahlins’ original and compelling history of Neanderthals in the modern world makes us rethink what it means to be human – and different.

Peter Sahlins was born April 26, 1957 in the Unioted States. His father was the noted anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. He was a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in early modern France.

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Laleh Khadivi – Female Life on Planet Earth

Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth review and information of the novel by the Iranian American writer. Oneword will publish the new Laleh Khadivi novel on September 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A novel about love, secrets, and the unknown depths of the people we love, Female Life on Planet Earth is intoxicating. Khadivi writes with bristling intelligence and real beauty.” (Katie Kitamura)
  • “As hilarious as it is profoundly moving, Laleh Khadivi’s multitudinous Female Life on Planet Earth is so very wise about love and its intimate attendant, sorrow. Powerful, startling, and marvelously vibrant.” (R.O. Kwon)
  • “Female Life on Planet Earth is a spellbinding fever dream. A wholly engrossing deep dive into womanhood and loss. A must-read revelation of a book.” (Jonathan Escoffery)

Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth

Female Life on Planet Earth

  • Author: Laleh Khadivi (United States)
  • Book type: novel
  • Publisher: Oneworld
  • To be released: September 24, 2026
  • Length: 432 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 10.99
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Blurb of the Laleh Kahadivi novel

After a lifetime together, Heti thought she knew her mother inside out. She’s about to discover how wrong she was.

Heti moves in a daze of grief after her mother dies, until her life is upended by the arrival of an unmarked package containing photographs of her mother as a young woman in Iran, enveloped head to toe in a black veil, pointing a machine gun at a group of sobbing young women.

Unable to confront the one person she most wants answers from, she turns to the women around her, listening to their surprising, funny and often contradictory stories. Through them, she realises that every woman contains hidden lives and private truths.

So when it falls to her to organise a memorial marking the first anniversary of her mother’s death, Heti gathers the women who knew her best and asks them: Who was my mother? And who are we?

Original, sparkling with wit and layered with tenderness, Female Life on Planet Earth is a celebration of womanhood.

Leleh Khadivi was born in 1977 to a Kurdish family in Esfahan, Iran. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. She resides in San Francisco, California, where she is a professor in the Writing department at University of San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, has been translated into Dutch (In de naam van de Sjah), Hebrew, and Italian.

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Silvia Park – Luminous

Silvia Park Luminous recensie, review en informatie van de dystopische debuutroman van de Koreaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 20 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Oneworld Publications de dystopische roman van de in Zuid-Korea geboren Amerikaanse schrijfster Silvia Park. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Silvia Park Luminous recensie, review en informatie

  • “Wildly and, yes, luminously emotional.” (Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library)
  • “Searching and masterful, Park’s Luminous engrossed me completely.” (Sierra Greer, author of Annie Bot)

Silvia Park Luminous

Luminous

  • Auteur: Silvia Park (Zuid-Korea)
  • Soort boek: dystopische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Oneworld Publications Magpie
  • Verschijnt: 20 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Silvia Park

Three siblings. Two human, one robot. The spectacular new debut about what it means to be alive.

In a fictional near-future Korea, robots have integrated seamlessly into society. They are housekeepers and policemen, teachers and bus drivers. They are our lovers. They are even our children.

Siblings Jun and Morgan Cho haven’t spoken to each other in several years. The children of a celebrated robot designer, both are still grieving the loss of their brother Yoyo, the earliest prototype for what humanoid robots have now become—nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. But Yoyo was always bound for a darker purpose, and his absence has left a chasm in the siblings’ lives.

When a strange disappearance thrusts the siblings back together, neither of them realizes that the investigation will not only force them to confront their fractured family’s past, but will also bring them back to Yoyo himself.

At once a thrilling page-turner and a heartfelt story of the ties between siblings, Luminous is an unforgettable literary debut.

Silvia Park grew up in Seoul and has spent most of her life in Korea. She received her BA from Columbia and her MFA from NYU, in addition to completing the Clarion Workshop in 2018 on the George R.R. Martin “Sense of Wonder” Fellowship. Her short fiction has been published in Black Warrior Review, Joyland and Tor.com, nominated for a Pushcart and reprinted in the 2019 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Chelsea Bieker – Madwoman

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 18 september 2024 verschijnt bij Oneworld de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman review, recensie en informatie

  • “Darkly funny, heart-smashing, and absolutely unforgettable, Madwoman is a masterpiece.” (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch)
  • “A truly stunning read – this is my book of the year.” (Ella Berman)

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman

Madwoman

  • Auteur: Chelsea Bieker (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Oneworld
  • Verschijnt: 18 september 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Chelsea Bieker

An unexpected letter from her mother threatens to pull Clove back to a life she’s left behind, in this thrilling novel from an explosive new talent.

To the outside world, Clove has it all. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a kind, reliable husband, two adorable children, a stable family home. So what, if silencing the memories of her own abusive childhood means racking up a little credit card debt or obsessing about her wellness routine? Nothing to see here.

But then a letter arrives from a women’s prison in California – a letter that threatens to expose the secrets of a past she has worked so hard to hide. Soon, Clove will become caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the very people she thought she had outrun. No amount of shopping, green juice or meditation can help her avoid the defining day of her life forever.

Brave, hilarious and full of surprising twists, Madwoman is a story about violence, recovery, and Clove’s refusal to be defined by her worst experiences.

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Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

Paul Lynch – Prophet Song Winnaar Booker Prize 2023

Paul Lynch Prophet Song recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Ierland, Winnaar Booker Prize 2023. Op 24 augustus 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Oneworld de roman van de Ierse schrijver Paul Lynch. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Paul Lynch Prophet Song recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Prohet Song. Het boek is geschreven door Paul Lynch. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Ierse auteur Paul Lynch.

The Prophet Song van Paul Lynch winnaar de Booker Prize 2023

Op zondag 26 november 2023 is de Booker Prize 2023 toegekend aan de Ierse schrijver Paul Lynch. Volgens de jury is het een “soul-shattering and true […} will not soon forget its warnings.”

Paul Lynch Prophet Song recensie

Prophet Song

  • Auteur: Paul Lynch (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Oneworld
  • Verschijnt: 24 augustus 2023
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £16.99 / £9.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Winnaar Booker Prize 2023

Flaptekst van de roman van Paul Lynch

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

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Botswana, Afrika

Gothataone Moeng – Call and Response

Gothataone Moeng Call and Response verhalen uit Botswana recensie en informatie. Op 2 februari 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverok Oneworld Publishing het debuut van de uit Botswana afkomstige schrijfster Gothataone Moeng. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Gothataone Moeng Call and Response recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de verhalenbundel Call and Repsonse. Het boek is geschreven door Gothataone Moeng. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de het debuut van de uit Botswana afkomstige schrijfster Gothataone Moeng.

Gothataone Moeng Call and Response roman uit Botswana

Call and Response

  • Schrijfster: Gothataone Moeng (Botswana)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Oneworld Publication
  • Verschijnt: 2 februari 2023
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de bundel met verhalen uit Botswana van Gothataone Moeng

Full of heart and humour, Gothataone Moeng’s first collection, set between the rural village of Serowe and the thrumming capital city of Gaborone, captures a chorus of voices from a country in flux.

Meet a young woman who has worn the same mourning clothes for almost a year, and a teenage girl who shies away from the room where her once vibrant aunt lies dying. Elsewhere, watch as a younger sister hides her romantic exploits from her family while her older brother openly flaunts his infidelities, and a traveller returns home laden with confusion and shame.

Moeng, part of a new generation of writers coming out of Africa whose work is exploding onto the literary scene, offers us an insight into communities, experiences and landscapes through these cinematic stories peopled with unforgettable female protagonists.

Gothataone Moeng was born in Serowe, Botswana. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction, a Summer Workshop scholar at Tin House, and an Emerging Writer Fellow at A Public Space. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She is currently at work on a novel.

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Kenia

Okwiri Oduor – Things They Lost

Okwiri Oduor Things They Lost roman uit Kenia recensie en informatie over de inhoud. Op 14 april 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Oneworld Publshing de nieuwe roman van de Keniaanse schrijfster Okwiri Oduor. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verschenen of aangekondigd.

Okwiri Oduor Things They Lost recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Things They Lost. Het boek is geschreven door Okwiri Oduor. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Keniaanse schrijfster Okwiri Oduor.

Okwiri Oduor Things They Lost roman uit Kenia recensie

Things They Lost

  • Schrijfster: Okwiri Oduor (Kenia)
  • Soort boek: Keniaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Oneworld Publications
  • Verschijnt: 14 april 2022
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Keniaanse schrijfster Okwiri Oduor

From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter’s quest to save her mother

The Manor Mabel Brown looms high over Mapeli Town, its rickety gate flanked by stone angels with severed heads, its yard full of tangled thorns and wildflowers. Inside these ramshackle walls lives Ayosa, twelve years old and the loneliest girl in the world.

With her mother prone to frequent disappearances, Ayosa’s only companions are the ghosts and spirits who wander through her Kenyan village. She craves escape, but more than that she longs for the love of her fearsome mother, Nabumbo Promise.

When a new friend arrives in the shape of Mbiu, Ayosa is forced to choose between protecting her mama and seizing a life of her own.

Okwiri Oduor’s stunningly original debut novel sings with Kenyan folklore and myth as it traces the fragile, intoxicating bond between a mother and daughter like no other.

Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. At the age of 25, she won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 for her story ‘My Father’s Head’. Later that year, she was named on the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of 39 African writers under 40 who would define trends in African literature. She has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, and she received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has a story forthcoming in Granta, and Things They Lost is her debut novel. She lives in Germany.

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Kerstboeken, Verhalen

Syd Moore – The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas

Syd Moore The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas recensie en informatie twee kerst misdaadverhalen. Op 26 september 2019 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Oneworld Publishing dit boek met twee thrillerverhalen voor kerst, geschreven door de Engelse schrijfster Syd Moore.

Syd Moore The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas. Het boek is geschreven door Syd Moore. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het boek met misdadige kerstverhalen van de Engelse schrijfster Syd Moore.

Syd Moore The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas Kerst misdaadverhalen

The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas

  • Schrijfster: Syd Moore (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: kerst misdaadverhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Oneworld Publications
  • Verschijnt: 26 september 2019
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
  • Bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met misdadige kerstverhalen

Stop Press: Two stories, ‘Easily Made’ and ‘Death Becomes Her’, were nominated for a Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger!

Nothing says Christmas more than a good old fashioned ghost story on a dark winter’s night, so sit back and enjoy a little pinch of Yuletide mayhem.

These extraordinary tales, one for each day of Christmas, explore the odd, the peculiar and the downright chilling, from a Strange encounter with an Icelandic Shaman, to a psychic policewoman, lively winged beasts and warnings from the recently departed.

Informatie over Syd Moore

Syd Moore is best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries (Strange Magic, Strange Sight, Strange Fascination, Strange Tombs and Strange Tricks, forthcoming from Oneworld, 2020). Her story collection, The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas (2019), was shortlisted for a prestigious ‘dagger award’  by the Crime Writers Association in 2019 and 2020. Her debut screenplay, Witch West, has been optioned by Hidden Door Productions (Just Charlie) with director Jane Gull (My Feral Heart) at the helm. Filming for Witch West starts Spring 2020, with release set for Autumn 2021.

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