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Running an independent hospitality business is complex, whether it's a hotel or restaurant, and mistakes will cost you money - or your reputation.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

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"Yasmin Ghorami in twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin's relationship and that of her parents, a "love marriage," according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another."--

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives.

Lydia, an Englishwoman abroad, chooses to escape her past. Although she builds a new life, forges friendships and makes a home, she cannot forget what she left behind: her children, her family and her heritage. But can she ever truly shake off her history...?

Román je ódou na pomíjivost. A nikde není pocit pomíjivosti intenzivnější než v prostředí velkoměstského hotelu, v tomto případě hotelu Imperial na londýnském náměstí Picadilly Circus. Ústřední postavou je Gabriel Lightfood, hotelový šéfkuchař. Ve svých dvaačtyřiceti se ocitá na přelomu života. Sponzoři jsou připraveni financovat naplnění jeho snu o vlastním restaurantu, a právě požádal o ruku svou přítelkyni Charlie. Objev mrtvoly vrátného v hotelovém suterénu je ale okamžikem, od kterého se Gabrielovy životní jistoty začínají hroutit. Setkává se s tajemnou dívkou Lenou z Východní Evropy, nejasně spojenou se smrtí vrátného. Lena tvrdí, že je obětí obchodu s bílým masem a Gabriel jí nabídne pomoc. A věci se začnou komplikovat. Víc než co jiného je ale román V kuchyni knihou o světě práce - jak nás mění a definuje. Gabrielovo pracoviště, v posledních letech zprofanované televizními show, se tady zdá být i nadále fascinující a kuchyňské scény jsou silnými místy románu. Své postavy autorka často používá jako prostředníky k tlumočení rozdílných názorů na Velkou Británii. A obratně tak vytváří portrét národa, jenž ztrácí pocit identity.