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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Stranger in Baghdad by Elizabeth Loudon
    A Stranger in Baghdad - by Elizabeth Loudon

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781649032850 | ISBN 10: 1649032854

    NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD   In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this interge ... more

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  • Cover image of book God 99 by Hassan Blasim
    God 99 - by Hassan Blasim

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x

    Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers...  The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi
    The Baghdad Clock - by Shahad Al Rawi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786074867 | ISBN 10: 1786074869

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018   For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE.  It's 1991 and the Gulf War is raging. Two girls, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The President
    The President's Gardens - by Muhsin Al-Ramli

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857056801 | ISBN 10: 0857056808

    Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.  On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.  One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
    Frankenstein in Baghdad - by Ahmed Saadawi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073976 | ISBN 10: 1786073978

    A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION   From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Bag ... more

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  • Cover image of book God in Pink by Hasan Namir
    God in Pink - by Hasan Namir

    £13.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781551526065 | ISBN 10: 1551526069

    A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Lambda Literary Award winner  The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003.  Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died ... more

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  • Cover image of book Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion by Hassan Blasim (Editor)
    Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion - by Hassan Blasim (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583669 | ISBN 10: 1905583664

    Featuring Anoud, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki   Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Stared at the Night of the City by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman
    I Stared at the Night of the City - by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781859641255 | ISBN 10: 1859641253

    Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the “Barons” who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life.   Defying the absolut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
    The Madman of Freedom Square - by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905583256 | ISBN 10: 1905583257

    From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasims stories present an uncompromising ... more

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