Available 1 August 2011 – The Honey Thief

'Moving effortlessly from the oral to the written, from folktale to modern-day fable, and from the earthly to the transcendent, this beautiful, life-affirming book probes the heart and soul of a remarkable culture, while paying homage to the universal power of story.'

— Arnold Zable, Award winning writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate

The Honey Thief

From the authors of the bestseller The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif comes their latest book, The Honey Thief. A superb collection of spellbinding tales from Afghanistan that portray a vivid landscape of hardship and brotherhood, catastrophes and miracles. These tales of peasants, poisoners and kings leap into life to reveal the rich storytelling traditions of Afghanistan.

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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey - from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan, to his forced exile after being captured and tortured by the Taliban, to incarceration in an Australian detention centre... and finally, to freedom.

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"Must say it was pretty harrowing, and gruelling in places, but it certainly left me wanting to know how the surgeon could possibly pick up the pieces of his life afterwards ... I certainly think this should be of great interest to the reading public, and controversial as well."

— Lindy Jones, Senior Buyer - Abbey's Bookshop, Sydney

Blood on My Hands: A surgeon at war

The year is 1999, and a fresh hell is being created before our eyes. It is hardly to be credited that the enlightened nations of Europe are allowing this nightmare to occur only sixty minutes by jet from Paris and London. The forces of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic have swept into Kosovo on the Balkan Peninsula leaving a trail of death and heartbreak. Scenes of Milosevic’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ play out on television screens all over the world; haunted figures huddled behind barbed wire fences, bodies heaped in ditches.

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