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THE LAST GIRL: MY STORY OF CAPTIVITY AND MY FIGHT AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE

A memoir of a young Yazidi woman who endured degradation, through sexual enslavement to ISIS and the murders of her mother and six brothers, to fight back.

Nadia Murad

& Jenna Krajeski Virago

~499, 306 pages

THE RE-ORIGIN OF SPECIES: A SECOND CHANCE FOR EXTINCT ANIMALS

A science journalist travels the world to meet the men and women working to bring extinct animals back from the dead, and asks: is it a good idea?

Torill Kornfeldt Westland Publications ~699, 236 pages

THE INDIAN EMPIRE AT WAR: FROM JIHAD TO VICTORY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE INDIAN ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The astonishing, and neglected, narrative of the great contribution of 1.5 million men — Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs — of the Indian Army in World War I. George Morton-Jack Hachette

~699, 582 pages

THE TWICE BORN: LIFE AND DEATH ON THE GANGES

A westernised child born to parents from two sides of the border seeks answers in Benaras and finds in it a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity.

Aatish Taseer HarperCollins ~599, 288 pages