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There are 17 books in this booklist
£19.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783785582 | ISBN 10: 1783785586
Your Wish is My Command is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale. Mired as they are in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the wishes that are more expensive are more likely to work ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347612 | ISBN 10: 0571347614
‘Glorious’ Observer
‘Amazing‘ André Aciman
‘Masterly‘ Sunday Times
‘Blistering‘ Financial Times
General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.
Under the regime ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635420647 | ISBN 10: 1635420644
First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant.
Captain Ni’mat, a reservist from the Egypti ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974254 | ISBN 10: 1910974250
Featuring Hassan Abdel Mawgoud, Eman Abdelrahim, Nael Eltoukhy, Areej Gamal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Jaʿfar, Nahla Karam, Mohamed Kheir, Ahmed Naji & Mohamed Salah al-Azab.
A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571332663 | ISBN 10: 0571332668
*** Winner of the the Betty Trask Prize 2018 ***
Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam and Khalil, two young activists, are swept up in the fervour. Their ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472152381 | ISBN 10: 1472152387
Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857862211 | ISBN 10: 0857862219
Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them.
The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fe ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167928 | ISBN 10: 9774167929
The misadventures of a modern time traveler through Egypt’s recent and medieval past.
Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time. Armed with h ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408841136 | ISBN 10: 1408841134
It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9789774166426 | ISBN 10: 9774166426
The prescient Egyptian novel that described the January 2011 Revolution before it happened.
A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an a ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280056 | ISBN 10: 0571280056
A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.
Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful bre ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408830369 | ISBN 10: 1408830361
Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a da ... more
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£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
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697259 | ISBN 10: 1906697256
Spectres tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born on the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing, both called Spectres.
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801086 | ISBN 10: 1408801086
The long-awaited novel from the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces.
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565625 | ISBN 10: 086356562x
Bahiah Shaheen, an 18-year old medical student and daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behav ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545637 | ISBN 10: 0747545634
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, and American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sha ... more
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