"As foreigners" is a brief documentary discovering the lifestyle of five foreigners, four nationalities (Slovinia, Sweden, Japan, and India),who travel to Paris to fulfill their dreams. By... More > photographing their personal possessions and places in Paris, it reveals how foreigners look for comfort and maintain connections with their own culture from the objects they carried with them. It also depicts how a person's culture background influences their way of living, even though they are miles away from home.
This book is presented by Taiwanese photographer- Adelaide Chih-Ching LIN in Paris, 2006.< Less
'Foreigner' is the intriguing account of a friendship between two young women (one Polish, the other Russian) who are trying to find their feet in the difficult and complex city that is London... More > today.
They find themselves having to deal as best they can with all kinds of problems, not least, the class differences between both themselves – they come from very different backgrounds - and their English boyfriends,one of whom is a lumpen lad from Liverpool and the other the wealthy son of a public-school educated father.
The story is anything but static, moving from London to Algeria, Russia and France, and dealing with themes ranging from sexual abuse, the police murder of a Muslim and racism in general, to the evils of the British educational system.< Less
Leo Walmsley has captured the atmosphere of a boy's struggle to become accepted in Robin Hood's Bay at the turn of the 20th century, a sensitive study of loneliness and of a childhood spent in a... More > demanding environment.< Less
A beautifully compact, mutli-genre journey through childhood, womanhood, and self-actualization. It is an auto-biographical break down of identity, place, social code,and relationship. This... More > collection is direct,lyrical, and philisophical: a haunting journey into the heart and esscence of womanhood.< Less
A beautifully compact, mutli-genre journey through childhood, womanhood, and self-actualization. It is an auto-biographical break down of identity, place, social code,and relationship. This... More > collection is direct,lyrical, and philisophical: a haunting journey into the heart and esscence of womanhood.< Less
A beautifully compact, mutli-genre journey through childhood, womanhood, and self-actualization. It is an auto-biographical break down of identity, place, social code,and relationship. This... More > collection is direct,lyrical, and philisophical: a haunting journey into the heart and esscence of womanhood.< Less
A beautifully compact, mutli-genre journey through childhood, womanhood, and self-actualization. It is an auto-biographical break down of identity, place, social code,and relationship. This... More > collection is direct,lyrical, and philisophical: a haunting journey into the heart and esscence of womanhood.< Less
An encounter can be a chance meeting, a planned get-together or even a confrontation. This collection of stories, non-fiction and poems features a variety of foreign encounters: with family, friends,... More > lovers, animals, cultures, or just with one`s own prejudices and preconceptions.
All proceeds from the sale of Foreign Encounters will be donated to Books Abroad.< Less
A rich mix of fiction, fact and recipes about food, drink and cooking from around the world. Written, edited and produced by expat writers. Foreword written by Alexander McCall Smith and all proceeds... More > will be donated to the Book Bus Charity.< Less
