In the tradition of Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate, The House of Impossible Loves is a novel set in twentieth-century Spain and France revolving around a family of cursed women.

“Sharp as a set of teeth, illuminating like a bullet hole in a window, Aziza Barnes is a daring and vital voice. Her poems have that rare combination of inviting you in while rewarding you for revisiting her words. She is a poet who understands that writing is bloody and poetry is missed punches in dreamtime. Read these poems and look at her go.” —Bao Phi, author of Song I Sing

Jagendra Rana graduated in LL.B from University Studies in Law, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in 1980 with a Fellowship from Insurance Institute of India Mumbai in 1992. Jagendra Rana is an insurance veteran with a versatile experience of General and Life Insurance. He has been a CEO of a Broking firm and Corporate Head of training in a General Insurance Company. He carries with him over 40 years of experience in the Insurance Industry at various top positions. He was conferred with the S.K. Desai Memorial Award for his Research Papers two times by III Mumbai in 2011 & 2019. He was also a resource person in the International Seminar on Insurance Frauds conducted by Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has authored 54 books so far on Mythology, Spirituality, Motivation, Management, Marketing, Life Insurance & Non-life Insurance.

A former intelligence agent is accused of terrorism, and his memoir assessed by an eccentric, erratic psychologist to establish the reality of an event that changed everything ... A beautifully written, mesmerising, shocking and sophisticated debut novel 'Smart and searing' Publishers Weekly 'Captivating, remarkably original ... it is a book of our time' Edward Wilson 'An exquisitely drawn debut that twists and turns to its stunning conclusion' Cal Moriarty ____________________ A former intelligence agent stands accused of terrorism, held without charge in a secret overseas prison. His memoir is in the hands of a brilliant but erratic psychologist whose annotations paint a much darker picture. As the story unravels, we are forced to assess the truth for ourselves, and decide not only what really happened on one fateful overseas assignment, but who is the real terrorist. Peopled by a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters, whose reliability as narrators is always questioned, and with a multi-layered plot heaving with unexpected and often shocking developments, Jihadi: A Love Story is an intelligent thriller that asks big questions. Complex, intriguing and intricately woven, this is an astonishing debut that explores the nature of good and evil alongside notions of nationalism, terrorism and fidelity, and, above all, the fragility of the human mind. ____________________ 'If it was Yusuf Toropov's intention to leave us pondering good and evil, right and wrong, love and loss, wondering who the good guys were, he certainly succeeded. I know one thing for sure, he's a wonderful writer and a born storyteller' Mari Hannah 'With echoes of Bellow, Pynchon and Kafka, Toporov's tale is a modern classic that challenges our perceptions at every turn' Cal Moriarty ' Jihadi is a gripping tale if a clash of cultures and individuals told with panache, dazzling wit and remorseless intelligence' Willian Ryan 'Intelligently written and multi-layered ... simply enchanting' Qaisra Shahraz 'Bold and skilfully executed ... bravely tackles a complex and timely subject' Frankie Gaffney

Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.

Can't make it to their vibrant churches in Manhattan, California, Wisconsin, or Washington, D.C. to listen to today's most influential preachers? Collected here for your reading pleasure are extraordinary sermons from Timothy Keller, John Ortberg, Jill Briscoe, Mark Dever, Francis Chan, Joshua Harris, Philip Ryken, Joni Eareckson Tada, William Willimon, and others. Includes author biographies.