The Institute Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for UK Author of the Year; Audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year (2014) 'We need our lives back

'We need our lives back

This prize-winning American journalist with unparalleled experience in Iran takes us there

The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema supplies the missing link between classical film theorists like Balacz and Munsterberg and film semioticians like Metz

But the driving snow

of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching

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