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The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections

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and the illustrations are in full colour for the first time

Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant

The Land Beyond is a journey through time

Asghar and Zahra The self The Silk Roads were noSameer Rahim LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Childhood friends Asghar and Zahra were born into the same British Muslim community in west London. But they grow up into very different people. Asghar is a shy boy nervous of stepping outside his family's comfort zone, while Zahra is an ambitious woman who has just finished her degree at Cambridge. The novel opens on their wedding day as friends and family wonder what could possibly have brought