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Monica Ali

    October 20, 1967

    Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin, known for her nuanced explorations of identity and cultural displacement. Her prose is celebrated for its vivid imagery and incisive psychological portraits, drawing readers into the complex inner lives of her characters. Ali masterfully renders both intimate settings and broader societal landscapes, highlighting the universal search for belonging. Her work critically examines the challenges of navigating multiple cultural worlds.

    Monica Ali
    Alentejo Blue
    Untold Story
    Brick Lane
    Love Marriage
    Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)
    The Weed Gummies Cookbook
    • 2023
    • 2023

      Running an independent hospitality business is complex, whether it's a hotel or restaurant, and mistakes will cost you money - or your reputation.

      Star Quality Hospitality
    • 2023

      With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

      Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)
    • 2022

      Homemade edibles are cost-effective, discreet, and delicious! This practical cookbook is the go-to resource for the cannabis curious of all levels and offers approachable ways to incorporate a variety of cannabinoids into your routine. With step-by-step instructions and colour photos, you'll also get pro tips for safely handling and labelling your confections. Get inspired to create your own special gummies and candies that are even better than your average dispensary-bought treats! Take your cannabis cooking skills to the next level and get your sugar fix with this ultimate cookbook.

      The Weed Gummies Cookbook
    • 2022

      Love Marriage

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.8(11258)Add rating

      Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals. As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means...[Bokinfo].

      Love Marriage
    • 2011

      Untold Story

      • 342 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      2.7(72)Add rating

      Lydia, an Englishwoman abroad, chooses to escape her past. Although she builds a new life, forges friendships and makes a home, she cannot forget what she left behind: her children, her family and her heritage. But can she ever truly shake off her history...?

      Untold Story
    • 2009

      'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d

      In the kitchen
    • 2006

      Weekenders 2. Racconti UK da Calcutta

      • 299 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

      Weekenders 2. Racconti UK da Calcutta