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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
£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857527875 | ISBN 10: 0857527878
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM TWO-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA. Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small co ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857526755 | ISBN 10: 0857526758
'A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don't know how you've made it this far.' Sami's childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838770013 | ISBN 10: 1838770011
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Kite Runner and The Other Hand - a testament to the human powers of survival. In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784160265 | ISBN 10: 1784160261
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018*** Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781902932545 | ISBN 10: 1902932544
At first glance, Jamilla and Ameena couldn’t be more different. Both are Yorkshire-born teenage girls of South Asian descent; but whereas Jamilla lives with her conservative Muslim family and is quiet, religious and academically bright, the more wo ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781902932453 | ISBN 10: 1902932455
Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer’s stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the sto ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908968296 | ISBN 10: 190896829x
With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874299 | ISBN 10: 1848874294
Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906697341 | ISBN 10: 1906697345
Three women struggle against the forces of society, family, and passion in a small Druze village in the south of Syria as the country itself struggles against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and then the Baath. The v ... more
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