Ziba Came on a Boat (PB)

Liz Lofthouse

Ziba came on a boat. A soggy old fishing boat that creaked and moaned as it rose and fell, rose and fell across an endless sea ...Based on real events, Ziba Came on a Boatis the moving story of a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. This beautiful picture book takes us on her brave journ...

Absolute Friends

John le Carré

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an...