![A disunited kingdom A disunited kingdom](https://bookanista.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nadia-attia-slider-290x290.jpg)
A disunited kingdom
Let me paint you a picture of an alternative Britain sadly not too far from our own… My debut novel Verge charts a journey – both literal and internal – of two very different young people across a Disunited Kingdom where the county borders have become hard borders with checkpoints, processing units, guards and, occasionally,...
![Laura McVeigh: Journeys of the mind Laura McVeigh: Journeys of the mind](https://bookanista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Laura_McVeigh_slider-290x290.jpg)
Laura McVeigh: Journeys of the mind
Laura McVeigh’s debut novel Under the Almond Tree is a vibrant and tender modern fable of a young life blighted by war. Fifteen–year-old Samar is displaced from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and narrates her story from aboard the Trans-Siberian Express as it trundles east and west between Moscow and Vladivostok. With family and memories in tow, as...